David Bell's (dkbell) Blog

Do you ever feel like everything you hear on the news or read on-line or in a newspaper is bad news these days?  You know, oil prices are skyrocketing, food prices are close behind, the US economy is going into a recession, the stock market looses 400 points, US Foreclosures ...

Will there be an unraveling of the housing market in the suburban fringes of Seattle?  That is what is happening in other parts of the country according to a recent article in BusinessWeek.  The article says that most of the overbuilding took place in the outer suburbs around the country in the l...

It was reported last week that home foreclosures have exceeded the 1 million mark nation wide.  Most of those however are located in other states.  Washington State accounts for less than 1% of all foreclosures nationally.   Most of these foreclosures nation wide have been blamed on adjustable ra...

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It was reported today by CNN Money that Home Foreclosures in the U.S. has toped 1,000,000 with Nevada, Arizona, California, and Florida accounting for 89% of the total of all Foreclosures. California, Nevada, Florida, Arizona and Michigan exhibited the greatest price deprecia...

Some say that lenders may be at fault for our tight Mortgage Credit crunch right now, and for all those people that got loans that were interest only or zero down and are now underwater on the property because prices have fallen and then can’t sell the home for what they boug...

Will Rogers once said that you only need to buy one newspaper in your life and just keep reading it over and over again because things don't really change.  People in Seattle...take his advice!!The economy in Seattle has been and continues to be strong.  It's projected that Seattle will grow by a...

For the first time in several years, it looks like the Seattle Real Estate Market is headed for some kind of a downward adjustment.  Although well over due by the way, it's still a little too early in the cycle to determine the extent of the downturn.  How long will this adjustment last and to wh...

 New Listing in Magnolia's Carleton Park with a Great Downtown Seattle City ViewAddress:           2608 37th Avenue WestBedrooms:        3Baths:              2.5House Size:      1980        per King County RecordsLot Size:           8870       per King County RecordsYear Built:        1939Heat:  ...

 New Listing,  Rare 1908 Farm House on Magnolia with a Commanding View of Downtown SeattleAddress:               3215 37th Avenue WestBedrooms:            2Baths:                  2.5House Size:         2310      per KCRLot Size:             6150       per KCRYear Built:           1908Heat:      ...