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Big News: Lake Chelan apparently to be kept higher through September! 26 Aug 2013 | 10:52 pm
If a policy change was made that increased the time that Lake Chelan shoreline amenities were usable by 25% to 33% more time available, that is big news. That is what is apparently happening, althoug...
Feds say housing prices up 2.1% in 2nd quarter 22 Aug 2013 | 11:06 pm
The Federal Housing Finance Agency claims housing prices went up 2.1% in the second quarter according to their Home Price Index (HPI). That is the eight consecutive quarter the index has seen an incre...
Wenatchee homes sales up, but not by as much, in July 22 Aug 2013 | 04:27 am
Home and condo sales in Wenatchee are up over 2012, but dropped a bit from June, in July. The Snapshot Report from Pacific Appraisals shows home and condo sales are up 28% by dollar volume and 23% by ...
Zillow says home prices are up, quite a bit 21 Aug 2013 | 12:52 am
Zillow is reporting that home prices are up quite a bit, with a 6% value increase in the last year across the United States and a 15% increase in the Seattle area. The company says that the national h...
CoreLogic ties mortgage risk to natural disaster risk 20 Aug 2013 | 10:05 pm
CoreLogic studied how risk of natural disaster impacted the risk of a mortgage portfolio in the United States. CoreLogic developed a natural hazard single risk score to quantify the probability of def...
Obama Administration admits that the Government, not Greedy Bankers, caused the financial meltdown 20 Aug 2013 | 04:22 am
According to the way it was presented by the democrats and their fawning press, in the early to mid 2000s, evil, greedy bankers around the country and Wall Street created a bunch of confusing mortgage...
The ides of August and Lake Chelan Home sales 19 Aug 2013 | 11:09 pm
With school shopping in full swing and the core of August behind us, this is a good time to look at the seasonality of the Lake Chelan home market. Lake Chelan, from a tourism standpoint, used to be t...
Seattle is one of the Top 10 Turnaround Towns for housing 19 Aug 2013 | 08:04 pm
Realtor.com reports that Seattle is number 5 in their list of Top 10 Towns leading the housing recovery for the second quarter. Realtor.com looked at these parameters to do their ranking: inventory, m...
CASH is talking in half of all home sales! 18 Aug 2013 | 12:01 am
Goldman Sachs reports that more than half of all homes sold last year, and so far this year, have been cash sales. That number is up from about 20% of homes that sold before the crisis for all cash. ...
Foreclosures no longer a factor in Lake Chelan housing market 16 Aug 2013 | 09:24 pm
Through July, there have only been two months where we had even a couple of distressed sales in 2013, and the other months we have only had one each month. The total number of distressed sales in the...
