Edgewood, WA Real Estate Blog

Statistics for January 2009 for Edgewood and surrounding cities have just been updated.
Notwithstanding some of the recent comments of the usual real estate spokespeople, the market price levels continue to deteriorate.  Remember the data is not seasonally adjusted.  Never the less, the trend is pretty easy to discern.
Peak to trough median prices widened in Janary [...]

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Mortgage rates continue to bounce all over the place during these volatile times in the market.  I thought it might be interesting to share a scenario that I’ve been pricing out this morning instead of just creating a rate sheet.
They are a couple who are looking at buying their first home.  They have saved up enough [...]

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Statistics for September 2008 for Edgewood and surrounding cities have just been updated.
Things appear to be changing a bit.  However, keep in mind the data is not seasonally adjusted (although you can see what was happening last year at this time).
Inventory seems to be coming down, at least for King County.  Prices continue to drift [...]

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Conventional mortgage rates are priced by the lowest mid-credit score of the borrowers on the loan application.    On October 1, 2008, Fannie Mae will be implenting another price adjustment for “adverse market conditions” on all loans delivered.  This means that lenders are all ready beginning to price rates factoring in the price adjustments as some [...]

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Statistics for July 2008 for Edgewood and surrounding cities have just been updated.
More of the same - median prices drifting downward. Still looking for a trend of increasing sales which would portend a “bottom”. It just isn’t there. Lacking an increase in sales, months of inventory is “stuck” at a high level.
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The numbers are interesting this month. As you would expect for this time of year, the number of listings is increasing for both King and Pierce Counties. Yet the number of absolute sales is decreasing. Buyers are holding back. Interestingly days on market for King county are drifting downward while they [...]

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This morning I read a post (Reading Redux) at Credit Slips regarding a familiar lament about not reading all documents at closing. It’s a subject I’ve visited before.
Lenders are notorious for getting document to escrow late or, at the very least, at the very last possible moment. Obviously it helps to select a trustworthy [...]

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We’re at month’s end and after reviewing May’s Edgewood statistics I’ve moved on to home sales in Milton. It’s always much more interesting to look at activity by price range by single area as opposed to overall stats for multiple area groupings the MLS publishes if you want the nitty-gritty on a specific area. [...]

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