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Eastside, Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland Predictions for 2012 Real Estate

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What’s on the horizon for 2012? From a piece on KPLU about the expected improvement in the Puget Sound economy. Dick Conway, an economic forecaster. had spoken at the 40th Anniversary Economic Forecast Conference in Seattle. Here are five reasons Conway thinks the future is bright: Boeing is showing strong employment, with the 737 MAX  [...]

Seattle-area housing market bouncing back

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Report shows Seattle-area housing market bouncing back By Connie Thompson Video Summary Fourth quarter real estate numbers are dismal, but the picture changes when you look at what happened in January. Story Published: Feb 9, 2011 at 7:11 PM PST Story Updated: Feb 9, 2011 at 7:11 PM PST SEATTLE — Fourth quarter real estate [...]

How to spruce up your home for wintertime sale

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Published: Sunday, February 13, 2011 How to spruce up your home for wintertime sale By Sarah Jackson, Herald Writer advertisement | your ad here If you’re trying to sell your house in winter, creating curb appeal can be especially challenging. It’s dark and rainy, and you don’t feel like dealing with the landscaping or your mildewed deck. [...]

Long Road to Housing Reform

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Feb 11 2011 12:26pm EDT Long Road to Housing Reform From:  www.portfolio.com Reforming the nation’s housing finance market is going to be a marathon, not a sprint. It’s going to take five to seven years to complete the reforms proposed by the Obama administration today, according to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. The toughest issue to [...]

Home Sales Could Enter ‘Virtuous Cycle’

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Home Sales Could Enter ‘Virtuous Cycle’ Consumer confidence and business spending are key to whether the U.S. housing market will move into a virtuous or a vicious cycle in 2011, NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun told a packed audience at the Residential Economic Outlook Forum Friday in New Orleans. After the downturn, the housing market [...]

Seattle area home prices decline, Zillow says

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By Eric Pryne Seattle Times business reporter Related Home values in the Seattle metropolitan area have fallen more than 10 percent over the past year, one of the steeper declines in the country, according to Zillow.com But a spokeswoman for the online real-estate database and marketplace said that’s most likely because the region is just [...]