Seattle Real Estate:

When you’re conducting a Seattle real estate search, how can a potential buyer tell details about the ownership of the home?  It’s tough - sometimes you can tell based on the information that is supplied online, and sometimes you can’t. 
In this market, we’re seeing lots of real estate listings with varying situations with ownership:

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Inquiring minds want to know how agents get paid on new construction, or least one person in our viewing audience is curious about it.
In most cases, Realtors get paid commission off either the sales price or the base price.  What’s a base price?  Different builders define the term base price in different ways, but it [...]

This is a summary post for our recent series about Bank Owned Homes.  You might have been following along, this is where you can access all the installments in one place!
Four Reasons You Don’t Want To Buy A Bank Owned Home

“Bank Owned Homes Almost Always Seem to Start Overpriced”
“Banks Don’t Know Anything About the House [...]

This is the last post in a seven part series called Four Reasons You Don’t Want to Buy a Bank Owned Home…and Three Reasons You Do.
We’ve already covered three reasons you don’t want to buy a bank owned home:
1. “Bank Owned Homes Almost Always Seem to Start Overpriced”
2. “Banks Don’t Know Anything About the House [...]

This is the sixth post in a seven part series called Four Reasons You Don’t Want to Buy a Bank Owned Home…and Three Reasons You Do.
We’ve already covered three reasons you don’t want to buy a bank owned home:
1. “Bank Owned Homes Almost Always Seem to Start Overpriced”
2. “Banks Don’t Know Anything About the House [...]

This is the fifth post in a seven part series called Four Reasons You Don’t Want to Buy a Bank Owned Home…and Three Reasons You Do.
We’ve already covered two reasons you don’t want to buy a bank owned home:
1. “Bank Owned Homes Almost Always Seem to Start Overpriced”
2. “Banks Don’t Know Anything About the House [...]

This is the fourth post in a seven part series called Four Reasons You Don’t Want to Buy a Bank Owned Home…and Three Reasons You Do.
We’ve already covered two reasons you don’t want to buy a bank owned home:
1. “Bank Owned Homes Almost Always Seem to Start Overpriced”
2. “Banks Don’t Know Anything About the House [...]

This is the third post in a seven part series called Four Reasons You Don’t Want to Buy a Bank Owned Home…and Three Reasons You Do.
We’ve already covered one reason you don’t want to buy a bank owned home:
1. “Bank Owned Homes Almost Always Seem to Start Overpriced”
and one reason why you might:
1. ”Play Your [...]

This is the second post in a seven part series called Four Reasons You Don’t Want to Buy a Bank Owned Home…and Three Reasons You Do.
We’ve already covered the first reason not to buy:
“Bank Owned Homes Almost Always Seem to Start Overpriced”
What’s a reason to buy?
1.  Play Your Cards Right and You Can Buy a [...]

This is the first post in a seven part series called Four Reasons You Don’t Want to Buy a Bank Owned Home…and Three Reasons You Do.
The 2009 Seattle real estate market is sure to be host to its share of Bank Owned homes.  What is a bank owned home, as opposed to a Short Sale, [...]