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The Cook Group: Real Estate Rant
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Serving the Seattle area, The Cook Group: Real Estate Rant, seeks to provide you with timely information on the local market and related topics.
Recent Posts
Patience
Sellers must be patient people these days. We're back to a more moderate market, where buyer activity tends to kick over a period of weeks, rather than a period of hours. This means that sellers have to be very practical about how they deal with ha...
Get Real
I got a call recently from a homeowner who had received a marketing postcard from us. He had a unit in the same complex as our listing and felt that we must have underpriced our unit because he thought that his unit (with the same floorplan) was wor...
Mixed messages
NAR reported overall sales up 3% today, but inventory (# of houses on the market) also up - about 10% over 2007. I know that year-over-year comparisons can be useful, but I think that it's profitless to compare current real estate figures to 2007- t...
VA loans
On Memorial Day, we at the Cook Group salute our nation's veterans. For over 30 years, Chuck served in the navy, following in his own father's footsteps. We are proud of our family members who have served, as pilots, surface line officers, and engi...
Financing
I've been hearing from clients who have had their unused bank lines of credit frozen. Previously, it seemed that banks were concentrating on freezing LOCs that had high loan to value ratios. Now, it looks as if they may be freezing products that of...
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