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Market News Seattle awarding $1.6 million in grants to neighborhood business districts   Seattle awarding $1.6 million in grants to neighborhood business districts Posted on February 7, 2013 by leahpham StaffPuget Sound Business Journal This story has been updated to explain how the money is spent. Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn on Thursday will announce the city’s $1.6 million investment in 17 neighborhood business districts. According to statement from McGinn’s office, the funding helps […]
Market News Housing market tighter, prices up in December   Jeanne Lang JonesStaff Writer- Puget Sound Business JournalEmail | Twitter The Puget Sound area housing market showed additional tightening in December as the number of pending sales outstripped new listings for the fourth month in a row. According to the Northwest Multiple Listing Service, the number of pending sales of single-family residences and condominiums in the 20-plus […]
Uncategorized Accounting: How to give away your home tax free You can give away up to $5,120,000 for the rest of this year without paying gift tax. If this higher federal gift tax exemption is not used, and the exemption falls back to $1 million in 2013, then this important opportunity will have been lost. Making a gift this year is particularly attractive to Washingtonians, […]
Uncategorized Save the date: SANTA PAWS set for 12-8-12 Windermere West Seattle would like to invite you and your four-legged friends to our office on: Saturday, December 8, 2012 From 10:00 am to 2:00 pm A professional photographer will be taking pictures of your pets with Santa. We will also have holiday treats for you and the little ones. Please come by and have […]
Uncategorized Washington state: 13th-highest median income at $56K With a median average income of $56,835, Washington state ranks No. 13 nationally, trailing U.S. leader Maryland at $70,004. Washington state had 249,382 households, or 9.47 percent of all households that made $150,000 or more last year, which ranked the state 15th nationally. The District of Columbia, which is considered a state for statistical purposes, […]
Uncategorized With landslide vote, project to replace Seattle’s crumbling seawall moves ahead The city of Seattle is set to name a general contractor Friday to oversee the replacement of Seattle’s crumbling downtown seawall, a project that can now move forward without the cloud of uncertainty that hung over the plans before Tuesday’s election. That’s because voters in Seattleoverwhelmingly approved a $290 million bond measure to fund the […]
Uncategorized Seattle home prices dipped in August, Case-Shiller reports – Puget Sound Business Journal Seattle was the only city among the top 20 markets tracked in the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices where home prices dipped in August. The home-price index for Seattle nudged down 0.1 percent in August, while the average home price in the other cities increased 0.9 percent from the previous month, S&P/Case Shiller reported today. Even […]
Uncategorized Redfin tweaks site to allow school zone searches – Puget Sound Business Journal Seattle online real estate company Redfin said it’s refined its home search system to allow parents to look for homes within a specific school zone. According to Redfin, “real estate agents report that most families choose where to buy a home primarily based on what schools their children would attend.” Redfin said it would issue […]
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Uncategorized HomeStreet Bank crushes Q3 expectations – Puget Sound Business Journal HomeStreet Inc., parent company of HomeStreet Bank, announced net third-quarter income of $21.3 million, or $2.90 per diluted share, crushing analysts’ expectations of $1.92 per share and well ahead of last year’s earnings of $2.43 per share. “Our record earnings in the third quarter were driven primarily by strong mortgage banking activity. We are also […]
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Uncategorized Zillow.com adds foreclosures – Puget Sound Business Journal Online real estate company Zillow.com Inc. said its added information on 1.8 million pre-foreclosure and foreclosed residential properties to its site. The Seattle company NASDAQ: Z said the homes are not yet listed for sale and cant be found on any Multiple Listing Service MLS and theyre not freely available on other real estate sites. […]
Events Happy Birthday to Doug! Happy Birthday to our leader: Doug Baldwin! Wishing you the BEST birthday ever. Thanks for your ongoing enthusiasm and everlasting support of each and every one of us here. We are proud to be a part of your team! -From your Family at Windermere West Seattle
Uncategorized Seattle home value gains trail nation’s: Study – Puget Sound Business Journal According to a new study by Seattle-based Zillow Inc. (NASDAQ: Z), Seattle home values increased 1 percent in the last quarter and have increased 2.8 percent in the past year. But nationally, home values increased 1.3 percent in the past quarter and 3.2 percent over the past year. Zillow’s study predicts that home values will […]
Uncategorized Forest of Trees is winning Space Needle design – Puget Sound Business Journal A forest of trees designed by Nicole Commins is the winning design in the Seattle Space Needles 50th anniversary competition. Commins, 29, is a freelance graphic designer who lives and works in Seattle. The Space Needle competition netted 100,000 votes and Commins design will be atop the Space Needle through April 21, 2013. It will […]
Uncategorized Where Seattle ranks in the U.S. for trick-or-treating (spoiler alert, it’s #4) | Seattle’s Big Blog – seattlepi.com We fancy ourselves pretty festive here in Seattle. We carve jack-o-lanterns, dress up our dogs and bust out the vampire fangs every October. But there are a few cities that do trick-or-treating better than Seattle, according to an annual ranking by real estate site Zillow. The gallery above breaks down the top 10 cities for […]
Uncategorized Where does Seattle’s real estate market rank in the U.S.? – Puget Sound Business Journal Seattle is the seventh-best overall real estate market in the country, according to the 2013 Emerging Trends in Real Estate report. The Urban Land Institute, a nonprofit research and education group, and PricewaterhouseCoopers publish the annual report, which was released Wednesday. Seattle’s ranking is down one spot from the 2012 report. ULI and PwC base […]
Uncategorized The Cycle of Foreclosure: Is it About to be Broken? http://www.kcmblog.com/
Uncategorized Refinance Activity Surges Following Dip in Mortgage Rates Mortgage applications saw increased activity in the last week of September, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported. Mortgage application volume increased 16.6 percent in the week ending September 28, according to MBA’s Mortgage Composite Index. On an unadjusted basis, the index increased 17 percent compared with the previous week. MBA also reported an increase in […]
Uncategorized Puget Sound home prices up, inventory down – Puget Sound Business Journal Home sales in the Puget Sound area continued to strengthen in September, with sales in 13 of the 21 counties tracked by the Northwest Multiple Listing Service showing double-digit gains in closed sales compared to September 2011. Closed sales of single family homes and condominiums in King County were up 15.6 percent year over year […]
Uncategorized Common Ground studies shipping containers, micro hotels and other low-cost housing ideas – Puget Sound Business Journal Seattle-based Common Ground is studying shipping containers, modular apartments and other alternative structures as part of a plan to create more affordable low-income housing in Washington state, according to a report released Monday. According to the nonprofit developer, the average development cost of a new rental housing unit in Washington state is approximately $200,000. That’s […]
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