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Healthy benefits in new homes
Marketing a healthy lifestyle is much more powerful than promoting a new home’s HERS score, LEED certification, or other features, according to research by the New Homes Institute at John Burns Real Estate Consulting. The researchers also recommended two other steps to increase new home sales: making the benefits visual [..]
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Issues & Impacts: October 2021
Issues & Impacts is a quarterly publication produced by the SEATTLE KingCounty REALTORS® to inform members about current issues and successes within your Governmental Affairs Department. SEATTLE KingCounty REALTORS® (SKCR) is ensuring that public policies support homeownership and your business’s bottom line. View the full publication
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News In Brief
Data from the 2020 Census shows the central Puget Sound region added another 600,000 people in the last 10 years. The population now stands at 4.3 million, up from 3.7 million in 2010. To put that in perspective, we’ve added about the equivalent of two Kitsap counties since the last [..]
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Pet Safety
With pet ownership on the rise, animal considerations are influencing home remodeling and buying decisions so pets and their needs and safety are accommodated. According to a survey by the National Association of Realtors™, nine out of 10 owners consider their pets as valued family members, and 81% of U.S. [..]
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SKCR Events Calendar
Date Event Time Where Phone October 13 – 15 WR Leadership Conference Semiahmoo Resort 425-974-1011 October 14 Affiliate Council 9 a.m.-10 a.m. Zoom 425-974-1011 October 28 First Citizen Banquet 5:30 p.m.-9 p.m. Seattle Art Museum 425-974-1011 For updates visit: www.nwrealtor.com and look under “Events”
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Single use bag ban
Starting October 1, restaurants, retailers, small vendors, and grocers are prohibited from distributing single-use plastic carryout bags and are required to charge a fee for certain bags. “Single-use plastic bags are not easily recyclable, which makes managing them at the end of their lives almost impossible,” said Laurie Davies, manager [..]
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Burns Resale Market Index
New research to measure the strength of the resale housing market found prices continue to rise and buyer competition is still intense. John Burns Real Estate Consulting, an independent research and consulting firm, unveiled its Resale Housing Market Index (RHMI) last month. It is based on a proprietary survey of [..]
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Educating sellers & agents about FHA loans in hot markets
Editor’s note: The following report is reprinted with permission from “The DPR Interview,” a regular feature of The Down Payment Report to showcase national leaders in homeownership assistance and low down payment programs. Educating sellers and agents about FHA loans in hot markets Over the past six months, Washington State [..]
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Hurdelbrink honored by WSAE
Tom Hurdelbrink, president and CEO at Northwest Multiple Listing Service, was selected as 2021 Association Executive of the Year by the Washington Society of Association Executives (WSAE). Hurdelbrink joined Northwest MLS in 2007, initially serving as executive vice president before assuming the CEO role in January 2008. His prior [..]
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Moving Company Scams
Real estate brokers are relied on for more than just writing transactions for buyers and sellers. One of their value-added services may be providing helpful resources pertaining to their clients’ relocation to help protect them from scams. Moving scams are so prevalent that two major moving companies collaborated to form [..]