Archive for January, 2007

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Seattle Apartment Market attracting Capital

In case you didn’t see this article in last Sunday’s Seattle Times, the Seattle market is now the seventh-most-attractive market for apartment investors. With a current vacancy rate of 2-3 percent in Seattle and around 5 percent on the eastside, rents are definately on the upswing. A large part of the increasing demand is actually from […]

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Monday, January 22nd, 2007

A rose by any other name…might not sell as well!

Which would you rather buy - a home owned by amotivated seller or a handyman special?  Apparently motivated sellers took 15 percent longer to sell than handyman specials. Words matter according to a study by researcher Paul Anglin, who teaches real-estate and housing trends at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. 
So what word help sell your […]

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