Category: Bridle Trails

Bellevue 98005 zip code home values forecast to trend up 4% in 2017. Do you agree? 0

Bellevue 98005 zip code home values forecast to trend up 4% in 2017. Do you agree?

Here at Team Reba, we like to stay on the forefront of technology that impacts the real estate world. We’ve recently partnered with Weiss Analytics to get their real estate market index data. Think of it like a supercharged version of a Zestimate in that the analytics here are even...

NWMLS latest news story about real estate inventory in Seattle says what we’ve been saying for a year 0

NWMLS latest news story about real estate inventory in Seattle says what we’ve been saying for a year

Posted this week, the latest MLS news for the greater Seattle and Bellevue area covers what we’ve been talking about for about a year. It’s imperative that buyers and sellers get a great team of professionals working with them, and communicating well together, to get through today’s marketplace. The story...

Have you been wanting to know what your home is worth in today’s HOT market? 0

Have you been wanting to know what your home is worth in today’s HOT market?

With inventory levels continuing to be so low in the King, Snohomish and Pierce County areas, it’s a good time to think about selling if you’ve been considering it recently. Curious if your home has enough equity? Click Here for a Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) to find out How Much Your...

What Lenders are looking for when you apply for a home loan 0

What Lenders are looking for when you apply for a home loan

When you apply for a loan, lenders assess your credit risk based on a number of factors, including your credit/payment history, income, and overall financial situation. Here is some additional information to help explain these factors, also known as the “5 Cs”, to help you better understand what lenders look...

NWMLS proves our point about lack of inventory in Seattle and King County for 2015 0

NWMLS proves our point about lack of inventory in Seattle and King County for 2015

I’ve been saying this for quite a while now, but here is some information to back up my remarks via our Northwest Multiple Listing Service – the database membership that all brokers in our area (residential in specific – many pure commercial brokers are members of CBA instead) use in...

Annual Team Reba home seller class in Seattle Sat, Feb 28th,11am-1pm! 0

Annual Team Reba home seller class in Seattle Sat, Feb 28th,11am-1pm!

No Fluff Savvy Home Seller Seminar -FREE- Feb 28 in Seattle Saturday, February 28, 2015 11:00 am – 1:00 pm RE/MAX Metro Realty Inc. office RSVP to Classes@teamreba.com or call 425.970.3697 Home buyers get a class to learn what to expect in a purchase, but doesn’t a seller need to...

New conforming loan limit amounts are on the way for 2014 – Puget Sound area will be impacted 0

New conforming loan limit amounts are on the way for 2014 – Puget Sound area will be impacted

Lower Limits Could Affect Markets – RIS Media With conforming loan limits being reduced and the new QM rules being put in place, 2014 looks like it will be a much more mellow year for home sales in Puget Sound (Seattle, Bellevue, Everett) areas as home buyers will need to...

Team Reba REO Squad coming to local neighborhoods soon 0

Team Reba REO Squad coming to local neighborhoods soon

A new relationship we’ve built with a lender will have Team Reba hosting open houses for REO sales. These are bank owned homes, meaning that a foreclosure has been completed and the bank is selling the “real estate owned” asset on their balance sheet. We’ll be posting our open houses...

JUMBO loans seem to be splitting lenders focus in 2009 market 0

JUMBO loans seem to be splitting lenders focus in 2009 market

For the last half of 2007 and all of 2008 the hardest to sell market in the Puget Sound area was homes that were in the roughly $650,000 to $1.5M range.  Why?  Because most of those properties required JUMBO loans for the buyers to secure the purchase and this was...

Need a copy of an oil tank decommissioning report? 0

Need a copy of an oil tank decommissioning report?

Since there is an abundance of older housing stock in the City of Seattle, it’s not uncommon to have the question of whether or not an oil tank is on a property. To determine if a tank has been decommissioned it is possible to contact the local Fire Department and...