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2018
By Seth Murphy The New York Times published an article in 2017 with a profile of today’s first-time home buyer. Here’s that person’s census rundown: 32, white, earning $72,000, and married without kids. The median price of the home he paid for was $182,500, and his down-payment was probably 6 per...
06/26/2018
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06/15/2018
June 5, 2018 KIRKLAND, Washington (June 5, 2018) – Member-brokers of Northwest Multiple Listing Service added 14,524 new listings during May, the first time that volume topped 14,000 since May 2008. “With eyes peeled for potential shifts in a market that’s felt like ‘more of the same,’ the recent...
06/15/2018
May 7, 2018 KIRKLAND, Washington (May 7, 2018) – Home buyers may be cheered by an uptick in inventory, but the improving supply is unlikely to reverse rising prices, suggest industry leaders from Northwest Multiple Listing Service. Commenting on just-released figures for April, which showed the h...
06/15/2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 5, 2018 KIRKLAND, Washington (April 5, 2018) – Job growth and a recent run-up in mortgage rates has created an “extremely intense market for each new listing,” stated J. Lennox Sc...
06/15/2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 6, 2018Home buyers, sellers feel “looming pressure” but Western Washington market stays strong KIRKLAND, Washington (March 6, 2018) – Interest rates are creeping up, inventory is sti...
06/15/2018