Feb 23rd 2011 12:17PM
Clueless on Seattle home values? Stable real estate markets thought to be immune to steep home price declines are finally feeling the same pain that cities like Phoenix have been suffering through for the last three years, according New York Times. Home prices in Seattle plummeted 4.7 percent in the last year, an even... Continue Reading »
Nov 9th 2010 11:08AM
Zael Zura and fiancee Veronica Botts (pictured left) closed on their little yellow house Friday after an alleged serial squatter delayed their move by about a week. The first-time homebuyers put an offer on a recently renovated bank-owned home in Shoreline, Wash., several weeks ago, on the same day Zura proposed to Botts.... Continue Reading »
Jun 28th 2010 4:20PM
As if the nation's real estate market did not already have enough problems -- declining sales, credit crunch and the home appraisal nightmare -- now squatters are moving into vacant and foreclosed homes and staking ownership claims. A Seattle woman who plopped herself into a vacant $3.3 million suburban Seattle mansion... Continue Reading »
Apr 23rd 2010 10:00AM
What do some people do when they can't afford their soaring housing prices of San Francisco? They move to the suburbs. Guess what's constituting as a suburb of San Francisco these days? Cities as far as Portland and Seattle, 600 to 800 miles to the north. In this age of telecommuting this type of scenario is now an... Continue Reading »
