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    • ARDELL: Usually Boards do not need the owners’ approval to increase dues as needed within a certain annual increase cap. Changing the CC&Rs to add new...
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Sound Transit needs your input!

Last fall I was saddened to learn that the greater Puget Sound region voted down the mass transit package that had been put forward for the Pierce, King and Snohomish County areas. While that put a bump in the highway, so to speak, for the transit people it didn’t stop them from moving forward [...]

Seattle Area Appreciation

Brian Brady asked: “Off topic but I wanted to ask you a question, Ardell. Has Seattle been a rising market from Feb, 2005 through today?”

It would have been a lot easier to answer if you hadn’t said February 2005 I could have just said yes. But I remember [...]

Good Folk and Old Fashioned Values

Last night, my dream came true.
“If” the beginning of every residential real estate transaction were the buyers and the sellers and their agents meeting and chatting, maybe having dinner together and a drink or two for an hour. Then everyone walks through the house together while the seller tells the buyer the story of [...]

If you thought “Zestimates” were off, try RealEstateABC.com’s Value Tools

Announced with lots of fanfare on Inman today about New home-valuation site rivals Zillow. Just went to check it out and it valued my home at $618,000 compared to Zillow’s Zestimate of $1.12 Million. Hmm..just a slight margin of difference there. Inman’s blog site covers the ABC Value tool as “Zillow is old news“.
Personaly, while [...]

New-home sales take a tumble

The Seattle Times reports that new home sales are dropping nationally:
New-home sales fell by the biggest amount in almost nine years last month while home prices declined for a fourth straight month, raising concerns that the once high-flying housing market could be in for a rougher-than-expected landing.
The Commerce Department reported Friday that sales of [...]

Recent Metro Home Prices in the US

I noticed that USA Today published a report on Metro home prices in the fourth quarter of 2005. If you check out Metro areas ranked by biggest change in median home prices. you’ll see that our own town of Spokane, WA did better than Los Angeles!