Sam DeBord
Seattle Real Estate - Seattle homes, condos, waterfront, and houseboats.
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2011
Realtor.com recently reported on the median square footage of houses across the U.S. to compare home sizes state-by-state. Washington state came in at #10 with a median house size of 1,903 square feet and a median lot size of 11,761 square feet. This median Washington home also had 3 beds, 2 ba...
10/31/2011
This past week's sales of waterfront real estate ran the gamut of available properties. Seattle waterfront homes were sold on Lake Union, Lake Washington, and Puget Sound. The property types were just as varied, hitting for the cycle with a waterfront house, a waterfront condo, a houseboat, and...
10/27/2011
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Recent studies by Corelogic and Capital Economics point out some surprising trends in housing. While the old adage of renters “throwing money away” has been tossed around quite a bit lately, the statistics in today’s housing market are starting to support just that statement. Most strikingly, Ca...
10/26/2011
Three Waterfront Sales - Puget Sound, Lake Washington, Lake Union Homes & Houseboats Sold in Seattle
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Three Seattle waterfront homes were sold recently, covering a wide range of property types. A Puget Sound waterfront home in Magnolia, a houseboat in Lake Union, and a Lake Washington waterfront home in Washington Park covered the three major categories of Seattle waterfront. The Magnolia waterf...
10/19/2011
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This is a nice review of the lack of financial incentives for buying a tankless water heater by home inspector Reuben Saltzman. Buy a tankless water heater if you need to save space, but not if you need to save money.Tankless water heaters are sexy. They take up less floor space, they provide a...
10/19/2011
The lack of available financing for home purchases is a headline that seems to be inundating real estate media outlets. While there have certainly been a number of changes in the qualification standards for home buyers, the hurdles to home buying, in many ways, have also been exaggerated. While...
10/18/2011
Another Mercer Island waterfront home was sold in September, bringing the total of all types of waterfront sales in Mercer Island to 24 for the year. The most-current sale was a 5300 square foot home on West Mercer Way. The 5 bedroom, 5.75 bath home was on the market for just 6 days, listed at ...
10/11/2011
The latest housing report from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service reads more like a real estate boom than the typical down-market stories we've been reading this year. While sales from August to September had their usual cyclical decrease, our market showed significantly stronger stats in n...
10/05/2011
Three Lake Sammamish waterfront homes were sold in the past two weeks, heating up the real estate market as we head into the fall. Circling the lake, the Bellevue, Issaquah, and Sammamish waterfront homes included two sales that had less than two weeks of time on the market. The least-expensive ...
10/03/2011
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With all of the news about Pending Sales reports, Annualized Sales, etc, is certainly important, it's nice sometimes to take a step back and look at the raw numbers. Home prices and sales have certainly been less-than-stellar for a few years, but those statistics can sometimes create the illusio...
10/03/2011
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