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, […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]