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2009 FHA Loan Limits for Seattle-Bellevue and Beyond
King, Snohomish and Pierce Counties loan limits effective January 1, 2009 are:
Single Family: $506,000
Two Family: $647,750
Three Family: $783,000
Four Family: $973,100
The new loan limit is lower than the current FHA Jumbo limit of $567,500 and is happens to be the same as the jumbo-conforming (aka high-balance) loan limits for our area for 2009.
Posted: November 10th, 2008 under FHA, Mortgage and Lending.
Tags: 2009 loan limits, FHA, King-County, pierce county, Snohomish County
Comments: 14
Sunday Night Stats - King County
We’re just past the halfway point on the third quarter, and condo prices are getting much lower. Unless we see a major change in the next 5 to 6 weeks, the MPPSF is showing down over 11% from peak At $274 vs. $311. Not a big surprise, as pending stats have been low, so it [...]
Posted: August 24th, 2008 under General Real Estate, Sunday-Night-Stats, seattle-real-estate.
Tags: King-County, market, Seattle, stats, Sunday-Night-Stats
Comments: 51
Excellent summer classes for new landlords…
As an affiliate member of Rental Housing Association I get involved in various activities within the organization as well as providing information to the public about upcoming classes that may benefit those that own rental property. This post is specifically about the upcoming summer classes for new landlords that RHA is putting on in both [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2007 under General Real Estate.
Tags: King-County, Rental, tenant
Comments: 3
It may not be your business…but it is all mine!
Two years ago, our company switched our loan operating system to Encompass, so I have data available for the past two years (closed transactions from March 2005 - March 2007). I’m pretty surprised at the results after analyzing my purchase transactions and so thought I would share this with you.
Mid Credit Scores
3% had credit scores [...]
Posted: March 21st, 2007 under General Real Estate.
Tags: 80/20, credit-scores, down-payment, FHA, King-County, lpmi, Mortgage and Lending, purchase, Rhonda-Porter, Seattle, zero-down
Comments: 27
Speaking of Trojan Horses!
After reading John Cooks blog, ‘Beware of what you post on Zillow?‘ I started to think, how much is to much??? Much like my last post about the ‘Trojan Horse‘ are we all becoming so connected that it makes sense for the County Assessor to start using these tools as a way to fuel [...]
Posted: September 21st, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: assessement, home, King-County, MyZillow, real-estate, valuation, Zillow
Comments: 6
Want to live in the Golden State? Bring lots of Evergreen State money.
I recently returned from my almost annual vacation in beautiful California to visit my family and a few famous real estate bloggers (Dustin & Andy). And it was interesting to note what I learned about real estate in the Golden State during my two weeks down there…
Non surprises
Bay Area real estate is still expensive. That wasn’t surprising at all. It’s [...]
Posted: June 7th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: Bellevue, California, King-County, Moutain-View, national, Oregon, Redfin, San-Diego, San-Francisco, Santa-Barbara, Santa-Maria, Santa-Ynez, Ventura, Washington, Weslake-Village, West-Seattle
Comments: 7
