A blog about homes, real estate and local interest stuff in Greater Seattle, Bellevue and the Eastside
Real Estate Market Overview:
Our Greater Seattle residential real estate market is jumping! But perhaps just temporarily until the tax credits expire – they only apply to transactions signed by April 30 and closed by June 30. Then we’ll see if the economy has picked up enough to keep things going.
The number of Closed Sales [...]
In the previous articles we introduced this ‘Now What Do I Do?’ series, and discussed Option 1 – Sit Tight and Option 2 – Loan Modification.
Now what if you really can’t make your mortgage payment? Not even reduced ones. Lost your job or got injured…. Savings running out…. This is tough stuff. But a lot of people [...]
In the previous article we introduced this ‘Now What Do I Do?’ series, and discussed Option 1 – Sit Tight. That works if you can still afford the mortgage. If you can’t, we need to go to Option 2 – Loan Modification.
Banks and other mortgage lenders may be willing to consider a loan modification if [...]
This new real estate ‘technical’ term underwater is getting quite a bit of press lately, and unfortunately it applies to a lot of us. What it means is “my house is no longer worth as much as I owe on it.” It means your equity is gone, and it also means that you can’t easily [...]