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A growing number of Chelan, Bridgeport, Coulee City, Washington homeowners have saved their homes thanks to Obama's Loan Modification Plan, and can now afford their payments so they don't lose their home to foreclosure.
President Obama's Federal loan modification program helps lower mortgage payments to homeowners who can qualify for
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Loan Modification Chelan, Bridgeport, Coulee City, Washington
Chelan, Bridgeport, and Coulee City, Washington homeowners have witnessed the value of their homes fall lower than the amount they owe on their mortgage loans. Moreover, the average income has shrunk to make mortgage payments often impossible to afford for homeowners facing other
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These are the most exciting listings I have seen in Lake Chelan this year! The Flying W Ranch is offering presales on homes on acreage and two of the homes are priced below $200k. Plus, the Flying W Ranch includes 600 acres of conservation property that has been put under the
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The latestBuilding Industry Association of Washingtonnewsletter has statistics of building permit activity in 2009. Brett Lamar, ofLake Chelan Building Supply, pointed out someof the information you might find most interesting:
I got my latest copy of the BIAW news letter today. In the very back they have the updated residential building
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For the third quarter, 52 homes were sold in the Lake Chelan area as compared with 35 in 2008. That is still well below the levels of 2005 to 2007 which were all around 75 transactions for the third quarter. But, things really ground to a halt in the fall of
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The IRS will no longer allow a property owner to deduct the value of a building donated to the fire department for training. Such donations have been a common way for the fire districts in the Lake Chelan area to train their firefighters. This removes any financial incentive for those donations.For
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I spent some time on spreadsheets today looking at waterfront home sales. If you are abuyer of waterfront property at Lake Chelan, you could make it easier to tell what is going on. Buy MORE waterfront property and buy thingssimilar to what was bought last year
The low number of sales
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In a post in Newgeography, the racial aspect of urban planning was examined. The standard examples of urban areas that top the progressive lists of media, academia and planning circles are Portland, Seattle, Austin, Minneapolis, and Denver.
If you take away the dominant Tier One cities like New York, Chicago and
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It looks like we haven't heard the whole story on the Home Buyer's Tax credit yet. The IRS is examining more than 100,000 suspicious returns that claimed the credit. So, buyers who claim the credit need to beware for the possibility of an IRS audit!
It appears that others are questioning
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There are currently only 13 pending sales in the entire Lake Chelan MLS. I can't remember a number that low before. Even early this year, the number stayed in the twenties and thirties. In the more robust markets of a couple years ago, pending sales were in the forty and fifty
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Consider these words:
Help Americans understand that the first and best defense of their liberty is not free speech, a free press or free access to weapons, but, rather, the freedom to buy, sell, own, use, enjoy and profit from the land we live on. - Greg Swan
It is not
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As we pass the middle of August and we start to worry about getting kids ready for school, those who were hoping to sell their homes and properties in the Lake Chelan area know it won't be long before buying activity wanes to winter lows.
So, what do they do? It
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That's right, there is a type of home that is seeing much higher sales than last year.Those would beLake Chelan waterfront homes! Through August, 10 have sold in 2009 as compared to 7 that sold last year.
Do you want to know why? While I don't know the thoughts of individual
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We have an extremely seasonal housing market at Lake Chelan. In my studies, only Alaska sees a greater variation in visitors higher than Lake Chelan. As fall approaches, our real estate market slows down, way down! We have lots of people, around 80% of those who listed their homes, wondering why
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In the first two or three minutes that the buyer enters your home, sensory organs feed data into the emotional centers of the brain. On the spot, the emotional networks vote up or down. The deal effectively starts or ends with the firing of a few billion neurons.
A book by
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According to the MLS, this spectacular home in Sunnybank closed on the 7th. This home may have the nicest finish work I have seen on a home anywhere.
It was listed at $949,000 and sold for $860,000. It was on the market for 51 days. The home has 4 bedrooms,
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According to this article in the Wall Street Journal, yes! Particularly if your home is a higher priced home. This is not a local phenomenon, as home buyers all over the country aren't touching homes for sale unless they are perceived as a bargain.
A new report Friday shows that some
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Wow, things are picking up now! July sales were well above last year. This is the first time I can say that in awhile.Check out my Lake Chelan Residential Real Estate Sales Report through July 2009 and including historical data for the whole sales story.
Rather that show all the homes
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Want to search for nearby listings from your smart phone in the Chelan area? That wish just may come true. I'm working on it with SmarterAgent.
To see how it works, in Phoenix and sometime soon in Lake Chelan, have a look at this post from a real estate agent in
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Wondering how the real estate market is doing in resort like Lake Chelan? After July, it is doing a bunch better.
Maybe the media do know that the housing decline is over. Last month saw Lake Chelan residential sales at 207% of July 2008 by dollar volume! June had already show
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There are new and better tools available all the time! One way your real estate agent earns your commission payment is to be familiar with and utilize these tools to help you get your home SOLD! This tool, with my geeky engineering side, tickles me.Have a home to sell that needs
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I got a kick out of the survey on the Most, and least, prestigious jobs in America. With Real Estate Agents coming in last of everybody, I think it gives some good food for reflection on why that is the case and what it might take to see that change, even
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Last weekend, there was a big, well promoted real estate auction at Lake Chelan. On Saturday, the 8th of August, James G. Murphy Auctioneers held an auction for 15 condominiums at the Chelan Resort Suites. The auction was a very visible fixture in the Lake Chelan area the last month or
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So, my partner, Michael, and I took a few days this week to go and spend time at Lake Chelan with a friend whose family has had a "cabin" here for many decades. We were touring around the lake tonight and last night noticiing that there are a larger than usual
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In the Lake Chelan area, we've been very fortunate and seen few foreclosures. But, we are seeing a trickle now and they are causing some disruption in the market. I have been talking with some folks who are worried about the ability to sell their homes with the competition from foreclosures.Fear
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