Geordie Romer's Real Estate News for Leavenworth and Lake Wenatchee

I was lucky enough to be able to write 3 guest posts for the Future of Real Estate Marketing (FOREM) published by Inman News. Each article was a bit different - something for everyone. On Monday I started with some great opportunities for learning outside of real estate: http://www.futureofreales...

I just learned about this great new tool that will help you create a custom Facebook "welcome" page without having to learn FBML. The tool is www.Pagemodo.com and I found the tool to be quite easy to use. There are a handful of free templates and lots of opportunities to add pictures and logos to...

After a hiatus the Carnival of Real Estate is back.  The CoRE is a collection of the best real estate blog posts that have been submitted and the winners are selected by a rotating host.  Drew Meyers just published the 177th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate yesterday at the Virtual Results ...

Over the past 6 years I have been interviewed a number of times about Leavenworth real estate and our local market. Obviously the most exciting was the New York Times, but it's great to be in the local papers too. Yesterday I spoke with the Wenatchee Business Journal who are considering exploring...

Yep, we finally are starting to get serious about putting our business on Facebook. For a while, I had just been mixing business with pleasure, but I really prefer having my business page separate from my personal account. We're trying to give our Facebook fans a little bit of "inside informatio...

Kai- what? Wikipedia defines  kaizen as a " philosophy or practices that focus upon continuous improvement of processes in manufacturing, engineering, supporting business processes, and management".  Kaizen is "the culture of continual aligned small improvements and standardization yields large r...

The Spring numbers for Leavenworth home sales are in.   Want to read the full article? Click here to read all about Leavenworth Home Prices in 2010.

In a recent post of mine about the Leavenworth real estate market, David asks: What do you think of Leavenworth condos under 275K? It seems to me there are an awful lot of those for sale now. Some of the Ski Blick are under 275, there are 3 Alpine condos, etc. What a great question: Here's my rep...

With a record number of homes for sale in Leavenworth, we generally are telling folks it's probably not the best time to list your house.  The corollary of that, of course, is that it is a great time to buy a home. But even our small market in Leavenworth is made of a number of different neighbor...

Did you know you can buy a home using an FHA loan even if you just sold a house through a short sale? Unbelievable?! I just got an email from Darel Ansley at Peoples Bank spelling out the scenario where this would work. Here's a a link to the post about Buying FHA after a Short Sale on my main bl...