Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Rising Flood Insurance Rates Sinking Sales in Florida


Rising Flood Insurance Rates Sinking Sales in Florida

A big hike in flood insurance rates has forced home buyers to recede from the market in some areas, drastically hampering home sales, according to...





Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Household Wealth at Record High


Household Wealth at Record High

A rising stock market and increases in home prices are giving a big boost to household wealth, helping Americans to regain nearly all the wealth...





Friday, October 4, 2013

Property Tracker Notification for New Listings

Courtesy of Cyndi Carver, Realtor

8 New Listings from 09/28/2013 to 10/04/2013 match your saved search criteria: Downtown Bellevue condominiums


Please let me know if you would like to schedule an appointment or request more information about a property. 

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$1,289,000 
Bellevue, WA
Downtown
Style: 1 story
Bedrooms: 2
Bathrooms: 1.75
Square Feet: 2030
Lot Size: 0.35
MLS#: 550282
MLS: NWMLS
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$625,000 
Bellevue, WA
Downtown
Style: 1 story
Bedrooms: 1
Bathrooms: 1.50
Square Feet: 1387
Lot Size: 0.00
MLS#: 551325
MLS: NWMLS
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$468,888 
Bellevue, WA
Downtown
Style: 1 story
Bedrooms: 2
Bathrooms: 2.00
Square Feet: 1236
Lot Size: 0.00
MLS#: 551073
MLS: NWMLS
 Open: 10/5 1:00PM - 3:00PM
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$449,000 
Bellevue, WA
Downtown
Style: 1 story
Bedrooms: 2
Bathrooms: 2.00
Square Feet: 950
Lot Size: 0.64
MLS#: 550066
MLS: NWMLS
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$385,000 
Bellevue, WA
Downtown
Style: 1 story
Bedrooms: 1
Bathrooms: 1.00
Square Feet: 926
Lot Size: 0.00
MLS#: 551554
MLS: NWMLS
 Open: 10/5 1:00PM - 4:00PM
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$325,000 
Bellevue, WA
Downtown
Style: 1 story
Bedrooms: 1
Bathrooms: 1.00
Square Feet: 723
Lot Size: 0.00
MLS#: 549451
MLS: NWMLS
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$239,000 
Mercer Island, WA
Mercer Island
Style: 1 story
Bedrooms: 1
Bathrooms: 1.00
Square Feet: 672
Lot Size: 0.00
MLS#: 551582
MLS: NWMLS
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$174,900 
Bellevue, WA
Bellevue
Style: 1 story
Bedrooms: 0
Bathrooms: 1.00
Square Feet: 308
Lot Size: 0.00
MLS#: 550453
MLS: NWMLS
Bank Owned 
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Monsters of the Housing Market: Vampire REOs and Zombie Foreclosures

Monsters of the Housing Market: Vampire REOs and Zombie Foreclosures

By Daren Blomquist, RealtyTrac Vice President

Report on how vacant "zombie" foreclosures and owner-occupied "vampire" bank-owned homes are both a challenge to the housing market and bargain-buying opportunities for pro-active buyers and investors. Complete Story

RealtyTrac and RentRange Release Top 25 Hidden Gem Single Family Rental Markets


RealtyTrac and RentRange Release Top 25 Hidden Gem Single Family Rental Markets

By RealtyTrac Staff

RealtyTrac and RentRange today released a list of the Top 25 Hidden Gem Single Family Rental Markets nationwide based on gross rental yield, the expected return on investment before accounting for taxes, maintenance fees and other costs. The Top 25 Hidden Gem Single Family Markets were determined by evaluating gross rental yield data provided by RentRange, institutional investor sales data provided by RealtyTrac, and unemployment data for more than 450 nationwide counties with populations of 100,000 or more. The analysis was limited to single family homes with three bedrooms.Complete Story

Foreclosure Market Trends



More Equity Foreshadows More For-Sale Inventory

Inventory of homes for sale is low across the country, but rapidly rising home prices in some markets over the past year has left many homeowners flush with equity and primed to sell. See the Top 20 Equity-Rich Markets listed below. Rising home prices also means more distressed homeowners now have positive equity and may be able to avoid foreclosure without resorting to a short sale. See the Top 20 Foreclosure Equity Markets listed below.Complete Story

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Home Selling Tips

Wanting to sell your house? Alternatively want to move to another house and sell the old one? There are some home selling tips to make your home offering pull in a purchaser. You might as well give careful consideration to a few angles in the event that you might offer your home. The cost essentially turns into a general of all. Then afterward, the characteristics of your house could be certification. The qualities incorporate delightfulness, usefulness, at home, and so on.
Most importantly, expects that you are a purchaser, what will you look or what will you look in the event that you need to purchase a house? Here are some home offering tips:
∑        Just acquainted with the business cost of houses, and put the sensible cost.
∑        The area of your house might be a focus to build or diminish your business sector cost, if your house found in a choice private, you are permitted to expand your business sector cost.
∑        Plan some method to promote and advertise your home offering. You can counsel with a master or with a realty executor. Just put your promoting in neighborhood daily paper or you additionally can put your home offering advancement in a sites. These days, there are numerous locales that work in home offering publicizing.
∑        Put a board sign composed ìhome For Sale by Ownerî in your front yard
∑        Showing your home to a purchaser straight or utilizing superficial media.
∑        Your presentation to a purchaser can include a great quality of your home offering.
∑        No home is flawless. You simply unveiling and illuminating all the negative actualities in your house.
∑        Make an exceptional early introduction, by doing a few arrangements in your outer surface, inside, and apparatuses.
∑        Creating a purchasing temperament, with turn of aeration and cooling system or warmer, make a few spaces, make comfy, open the windows, light the chimney, and so on.
∑        Qualify a purchaser is fundamental to do to verify that the procedure of offering work legitimately.
∑        pay regard for your house charge. You can counsel with your house charge counselor.
∑        just now about all legitimate transaction prepare terms, for example contracts, and letter related.
∑        learn how to benefit a transaction.
∑        if you choose to utilize an executor or real estate broker, you should know the distinctive of two them. You additionally might as well now the requisition and all the procedure inside.
∑        choose a legitimate real estate agent.
∑        put the board signs composed ìhome For Sale by Realtorî assuming that you utilize real estate agent.
∑        make great use of your realtor’s advice. Your real estate agent will direct you to your home offering and you will accept the most extreme effects advertised.
Tips on offering your own home
Offering your own home is never simple, and the challenges ran more than simply missing an executor. There are those remembrances and feeling of assets to get over, for one. You need to verify the house youíve existed in moves to the best purchaser conceivable ñ and you need to determine theyíre ready to pay what itís worth.  Do you truly suppose you can isn’t that right? A mess of individuals devised a workable plan to offer their own home rapidly. Here are a few tips that may offer assistance:
∑        make beyond any doubt you have each legitimate issues secured before you even consider giving your house over. Does your state law require you to give property divulgences to potential purchasers? Itís dependably a great thought to put resources into an exceptional lawyer to help you.
∑        an lawyer likewise prove to be useful for helping you make the agreement shape. Offering your own home requires an agreement that might both secure you and the purchaser ñ contemplate the purchaser store and the nearby bequest laws.
∑        a convenient yet typically ignored tip in offering your own home is determine you select the best picture to invest the notices. Like people, not all houses are ìphotogenicî, so choose the best point that still speaks to what your house needs to offer
∑        something the operators have and you donít is experience, particularly in watching purchasers. The vast measure of potential purchasers going to your house ought not persuade you that everybody can back for a house. Assuming that youíre offering a house on your own, more purchasers will come in any desire for a more adaptable arrangement ñ check every one of them. Inquire as to whether theyíre ready to purchase your house quickly, or do they have to offer their own particular house first.
∑        Cleaning and getting ready your house for home showings is just a part of your exertion. Some potential purchasers love to do drive-bys, and depend on that early introduction. Verify your grass and the front part of your house is generally supported. Assuming that your check bid is low, customers are hesitant to see whatís inside.
These tips on offering your own particular home originated from individuals who devised a workable plan to offer their house effectively.  There is a ton to think about before you take the next step, so take a breather and talk to your agent.