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A Special Edition of Pulse of the Market

We give you A Tech Edge in real estate and our latest effort is in video.  We have been showing you weekly how the market is improving with our Pulse of the Market postings and we wanted to share with you the dramatic proof of the improvement.

Please take two minutes (it’s just 2 minutes and 8 seconds) to see what I’m talking about! Click on the link below and start the video…..

Top 10 Fall Gardening Tips

Autumn is the perfect time to get out and prep your lawn and garden for the winter months so you will have an amazingly healthy yard in the spring. Here are a few autumn tips to get you started:

1. Leave your leaf blower in the garage and bust out a rake to rake up all those leaves. This is not only good exercise for you, but it’s better for the environment. Plus your lawn will love all that sunshine and air that it wouldn’t get when suffocated under a wet blanket of leaves. ….

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King County average, median home sale prices rise in June
Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)

The average home sale price in King County rose to $446,044 last month from $423,875 in May and the median sale price rose to $363,116 from $351,500 a month earlier.
The number of pending sales in King County rose to 3,042 in June from 2,801 in May, according to data collected by the Northwest Multiple Listing Service (NWMLS), which tracks home sales in 19 Western Washington counties.

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Opportunities & Challenges

Well the market is picking up, there’s no doubt.  Hind sight is 20/20, but  we’ve been following the pulse of the market weekly and telling you about all the signs.  The papers have noticed and are printing stories about the housing market is coming back in this area. Hurrah! Finally, someone is taking the facts and not putting a negative spin on it.  The investors are back into the market and they are acting quickly and aggressively and doing deals.  There have been multiple offers on properties and we had two offers in one day on the same property that has been on the Market since February.

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