Rain City Guide

Noah Rosenblatt brings up a timely article (timely for me anyway) on the tax benefits associated with selling a primary residence. Here’s the pertinent info:
To claim the maximum exclusion on the capitol gains on the sale of your home, you MUST first meet the Ownership and Use tests…

Owned the home for at least [...]

Where to invest next in Seattle/Eastside neighborhoods? I’ve been thinking about the list Seattle Metropolitan Magazine came up in April (see below). With gas prices up, rapid transit going in, I think the next hot spots will be along those rapid transit routes like what happened in San Francisco and Portland.
Here are 2 lists, one [...]

A couple of weeks ago I had occasion to take three different clients through the same house – an attractively-priced 1967 split-level home just north of Microsoft. So everybody knows that Microsoft will be hiring a lot more folks over the next few years, and a lot of those folks are thinking maybe they [...]

Last week an investor called me from LA who is a stock broker. Our conversation got me thinking about the rich investment opportunity real estate provides, in spite of all the talk of a bubble burst. I’ve played the stock market for years and have won some and lost some but I’ve never been able [...]

(Editor’s Note: I’m extremely excited to announce a new contributor to Rain City Guide. Eileen Tefft is a Managing Partner with Ltd Real Estate and has over two decades of experience in the real estate industry.)
Hello Rain City Guide community,
This is a first for me. First post, first time ‘published’. I’m excited and feel it’s [...]

I noticed that Robbie has been playing around with the back-end of the home search tool he has developed for Rain City Guide, and it reminded me that I’ve been wanting to highlight one of the cool feature. The search tool allows you to sort your listings based on the price per square foot…
And [...]

As you may know, HouseValues (NASDAQ: SOLD) is a publicly traded company. As you may not know, they reported their earnings for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2005, this afternoon.
To quote the highlights from the press release from MSN MoneyCentral

“For the year, HouseValues reported annual revenue and net income growth of 82 percent [...]

(Editor’s Note: I recently came across an interesting blog put together by Stephen Cugier and Nick Papa from Grubb & Ellis that focuses on Seattle’s commercial real estate market. In talking with them, I thought it would be interesting to have them post an occasional article on aspects of commercial real estate that [...]

Many “average” Americans are dipping their toe into the world of investment real estate. Not satisfied with owning REITs, many non-real estate professionals are turning to buying vacation homes, single family rental properties, small multi-family dwellings and even small commercial buildings.
If you are in this group (or thinking of joining this group), I want [...]

Made it over 11,000!!! Can it sustain the level by the end of the week? Keep watching!