Recently, I have been thinking about what the “perfect” home is. The difficulty of determining is that important features of a home vary greatly from one person or family to the next. Various locations, tastes, commuting distances, views or no views,

Snohomish County’s lot supply pipeline and new construction inventory is full of developments, vacant lots and new construction homes which builders are having difficulty selling. Through the real estate growth of the new millennium, builders were parti

So it would seem that Snohomish County’s lot sales have flat lined. In the 1st quarter there where 47 sales, 2nd quarter increased to 69 and in the 3rd quarter there where 67 sales, a decrease of 2.9%. In the current real estate climate, builders are no

The home buying process is much more than finding a house and arranging financing. I have been guilty myself of not fully explaining the steps a buyer will encounter and previous posts have only overviewed the home search, selling, home inspections...

Would you still buy this home if the schools where good?

Yesterday John Wahl stopped by the office and shared a Puget Sound Market Trends report from New Home Trends, Inc. The Puget Sound Market Trends report covered King, Kitsap, Thurston, Pierce and Snohomish County and most of what the local real estate indu

Simple, fix problems before they become nightmares. Every homeowner, buyer and/or seller at one time or another has had to face a home inspection. The wide range of defects that can be uncovered during a home inspection can be a major deal breaker. Buyers

Yesterday I received the 2nd Quarter 2008 lots sales figures and to my surprise there was a 46% increase. That is not saying much though since lot sales increased to a meager 69 for all of Snohomish County from 47 in the first quarter.

Summer seems to have finally arrived in the Pacific Northwest. The warmer weather means families will be spending more time outside working on their tans but for people living in the Snohomish County flood plain the warmer weather is not as welcomed.