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The Evolution of Listing Input: 40 Years of Powering the Region’s Real Estate Industry
As Northwest Multiple Listing Service (NWMLS) celebrates our 40th Anniversary in 2024, let’s take a look back at how the process of inputting for-sale properties into the MLS database has evolved over the last four decades. Before the 1980s – Listing Cards & NCR Paper Forms Before a database was [..]
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Grow Your Business with NWMLS
Interested in learning how NWMLS can enhance your real estate business? In addition to our core Products & Services, here are a few tools and resources specifically designed to help you increase your marketing and client prospecting efforts: Call us at 425-820-9200 for more information how to become a member [..]
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Waterfront Homes: Listing Data & Market Trends
The Pacific Northwest is defined by its abundance of water, from the Pacific Ocean to Puget Sound, plus hundreds of lakes, rivers, and creeks. With so much variety, NWMLS provides brokers with numerous options to list and search for different types waterfront property. We’ve taken a look at the NWMLS [..]
Monthly Market Update
Increased inventory leads the way to market stabilization
Washington counties covered by NWMLS continue to follow seasonal trends with respect to inventory levels yet divert from typical patterns with regard to transaction volume.
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The Evolution of Real Estate Photography: 40 Years of Powering the Region’s Real Estate Industry
As Northwest Multiple Listing Service (NWMLS) celebrates our 40th Anniversary in 2024, let’s take a look back at how real estate photography has evolved over the last four decades. 1980s – Black & White Print Photos During the 80s, printed catalogs of listed properties within specific areas (known as “The [..]
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View Homes: Listing Data & Market Trends
In the Pacific Northwest, there’s no shortage of homes with amazing views. Views are considered by many buyers to be highly desirable and often increase the value of a property. Whether you are selling or looking for a view home, NWMLS brokers have the ability to list and search for [..]
Monthly Market Update
While interest rates remain high, an increase in inventory and closed sales transactions signal that buyers and sellers are adjusting
The real estate market has continued to pick up in accordance with typical seasonal patterns, with further increases in activity expected as we move fully into the summer months.
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Joyce Vanderpol: Celebrating 100 Years
NWMLS member Joyce Vanderpol, at 100 years young, is the “eldest” Managing Broker in Washington and most likely the United States as well! She’s been a Blaine resident for 51 years and a real estate professional for 37 years. She was born alongside her twin sister in the then small town of Kirkland [..]
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NWMLS Leads the Industry in Providing Consumers with Transparency, Choice and Options to Negotiate
In 2019, home sellers filed two class action lawsuits (known as Moerhl and Sitzer/Burnett) against the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and several large brokerages.
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Housing Hotspots: Listing Data & Market Trends
Have you ever wondered which locations have the most expensive homes, least expensive homes, or the highest number of sales? NWMLS brokers have answers! We’ve put together some interesting trends found by searching in the NWMLS database (which contains hundreds of thousands of listings dating back to the 1990s). Most [..]