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Master Builders select real estate attorney as association’s leader, the first woman to head country’s largest homebuilders association
Former Weyerhaeuser Co. executive Kathleen (Kat) Sims is the next executive director of the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties. Sims is the first woman to lead the 109-year-old group whose 3,000 member companies make it the largest residential homebuilders association in the country. She succeeds Shannon Affholter [..]
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Brokers Report Some Good News For Home Buyers, But Still Expect Puget Sound’s “Frantic Market” to Continue
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 highest level of active listings since August, [..]
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NWMLS Monthly Market Snapshot
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A lot of people drive around without insurance. It’s about 17 percent of the motorists in Washington, according to the latest report from the Insurance Research Council. That means we are the seventh worst state in the country for uninsured drivers. While it’s against the law to drive without insurance, [..]
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Changing demographics, policies create new challenges for cost burdened renters
Affordability is a major concern for renters and that problem is likely to persist according to researchers who authored “America’s Rental Housing” report for the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. A “good news/bad news” finding from the report is that rental stock is growing – but only [..]
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SKCR Events Calendar
Date Event Time Where Phone 5/13-18/19 NAR Meetings Washington, DC 425-974-1011 5/23/19 First Citizen Banquet 5:30 pm – 9:30 pm Fairmont Hotel, Seattle 425-974-1011 5/27/19 Holiday – Office Closed 6/4/19 Housing Issues Briefing 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Meydenbauer Center 425-974-1011 For updates visit: www.nwrealtor.com and [..]
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Teams competing for $1 million for improving algorithm for real estate valuations
Three top contenders edged out more than 3,800 teams from 91 counties to qualify for the Second Round of a Zillow Prize® competition and the chance to win a $1 million grand prize if they succeed in building an algorithm to predict actual sales prices. Winners will be announced in [..]
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SKCR Events Calendar
Date Event Time Where Phone 5/13-18/19 NAR Meetings Washington, DC 425-974-1011 5/23/19 First Citizen Banquet 5:30 pm – 9:30 pm Fairmont Hotel, Seattle 425-974-1011 5/27/19 Holiday – Office Closed 6/4/19 Housing Issues Briefing 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Meydenbauer Center 425-974-1011 For updates visit: www.nwrealtor.com and look under “Events”
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Four years of work remains, but drivers will soon to start to see the fruits of 17 years of construction on I-5 through Tacoma, according to a report in mynorthwest.com. The new northbound Puyallup River Bridge should open to all drivers in May. That is a huge step forward for [..]
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King County broker tapped to chair Northwest MLS Board
Jason Wall, president and designated broker at Lake & Company Real Estate in Seattle, has been elected chairman of the Northwest Multiple Listing Service (NWMLS) board of directors. Other new officers for 2018 include Kevin Campbell, vice chairman; Robert Wasser, treasurer, and Randall Fisher, secretary. Joining the officers on the [..]