Is This A Good Time To Buy A Home In Washington State? For Many It Certainly Is!

“The oldest and strongest emotion in mankind is fear.” – H.P. Lovecraft If you watch only national news of financial turmoil and declining housing prices you may fear now is not the time to buy a home. While that may be the case in other states, it’s not an accurate picture of the market in [...]

Washington State Government and Public Real Estate News

EUGENE, OR – May 16, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — Fall City, Washington real estate agent Carol Stevens has become the latest professional to integrate the dynamic IDX Broker software onto her professional website, creating a helpful and simple search page for Washington home seekers. Northwest MLS (NWMLS) listings are seamlessly linked to the search page Stevens employs, giving her the ability to display thousands of listings on her convenient and easy-to-use RiverView Realty LLC website. more »

EUGENE, OR – May 10, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — IDX, Inc. is pleased to welcome Oroville, Washington real estate agent Pauline Waits to the growing network of agents and brokers that have chosen to integrate the innovative IDX Broker software onto their website. Waits now supplies thousands of Northwest MLS (NWMLS) listings to area home seekers, giving them a unique and thorough database of listings for them to utilize throughout their search. With the dynamic search page Waits now hosts, as well as the IDX Broker application for iPhone, her clients are always connected to the easily accessible database on the website of Waits. Never again will a Oroville buyer experience a complicated or time-consuming online real estate search, when they work with Waits and her professional website. more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 26, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — Today, Thursday, April 25th, 2013, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) announced the introduction of the Improving Access to Child Care for Homeless Families Act of 2013, legislation which aims to address the difficulties homeless families face in accessing reliable child care. She also introduced the Educational Success for Children and Youth Without Homes Act of 2013, which amends the McKinney-Vento Act’s Education for Homeless Children and Youth program to better allow school districts to identify and address the needs of children and youth affected by homelessness and to bolster opportunities that help them succeed in school. more »

EUGENE, OR – April 23, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — IDX, Inc. is pleased to announce the network of real estate agents and brokers who have chosen to upgrade their professional websites is growing yet again, with the addition of an IDX solution to the website of Sean Reynolds. Bellevue, Washington properties are now displayed with ease on the IDX-enabled website Reynolds hosts. His membership with the Northwest MLS (NWMLS) further simplifies the online real estate search for home seekers by extracting raw listing data and integrating it onto the page Reynolds hosts. Now, potential buyers can search for their dream Washington home on one concise and convenient real estate website, thanks to Reynolds and IDX Broker software. more »

EUGENE, OR – April 23, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — Dennis Folk of Compass Team Northwest has teamed up with IDX, Inc. to deliver home seekers a comprehensive online real estate search. His website now hosts the innovative IDX Broker software, seamlessly integrating thousands of Northwest MLS (NWMLS) listings onto his website and enabling his clients to search through all of them quickly and easily online. Folk can now offer potential Washington buyers an online real estate solution that allows them to truly customize their property search. more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 17, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — Property owners have several options to pay the first half of 2013 property taxes by the Tuesday, April 30, deadline. They are: more »

EUGENE, OR – April 17, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — Lake Stevens, Washington real estate advisor Steve Lantz has adopted the IDX, Inc. premier IDX Broker software to integrate detailed property listings onto his Bell Properties, Inc.’s website. With his incredible IDX solution, Lantz has transformed the way Northwest MLS (NWMLS) listings are displayed online, as potential buyers can now access thousands of properties on their own, with unprecedented access to real estate market trends and updated listing information. Finding a Washington home online has never been easier, thanks to Lantz and his IDX-enabled website. more »

Vancouver, WA – April 16, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — Ideas about home modification, energy efficiency and green building will be topics of a Wednesday, April 24, presentation sponsored by the Commission on Aging. more »

WATCH the hearing.

Washington, D.C. – April 11, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray, a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, questioned Shaun Donovan, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, on the impacts of sequestration on housing vouchers in King County. The King County Housing Authority recently announced that it will not be re-issuing vouchers, leaving low-income Washington families without access to affordable housing. more »

EUGENE, OR – April 9, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — Bette Zerba has adopted the innovative IDX Broker software for her professional website, synchronizing her search page with thousands of Spokane MLS (SARMLS) listings. Home seekers and potential clients in the horse community looking for new property can now quickly and easily access the search tools she hosts online and experience a level of ease and functionality never before available to them. more »

EUGENE, OR – April 8, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — IDX, Inc. welcomes James Pullman to the growing network of agents and brokers dedicated to serving their clients by adopting the dynamic IDX Broker software for their professional websites. With the search tools Pullman has synchronized to his website with his IDX solution, the online property search is easier than ever for home seekers. Northwest MLS (NWMLS) listings are seamlessly displayed on Pullman’s Accurate Property Sales & Marketing website, giving potential buyers thousands of listings to search. more »

LOS ANGELES, CA – April 3, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — Realty Mogul, an online platform that is doing crowdfunding for real estate has its first success story in Washington state. Real Property Funding Group, a real estate investment company in Settle, WA, raised $80,000 using Realty Mogul’s revolutionary platform for real estate fundraising. The money is being used to rehabilitate a single family home in Everett, WA. more »

Children’s educational programs and adult career development services expanded

Auburn – April 3, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — Books crowd classroom shelves, art projects spill across tables, and a bank of state-of-the art computers with Internet access signal that the new community facility at Burndale Homes, a 50-unit public housing complex owned by the King County Housing Authority, is open for business. The Burndale Homes community center provides a welcome setting for children participating in after-school programs and for adults using the array of employment-related programs. A community celebration for the new facility will be held at 4 p.m. on April 4, 2013. more »

EUGENE, OR – April 3, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — Donna Gola, real estate professional with Keller Williams Western Realty, has teamed with IDX, Inc. to create an easy-to-use real estate search page for all potential Everett, Washington buyers. The versatile tools and search features Gola now displays on her website make the online property search monumentally easier for home seekers and real estate professionals alike. Northwest MLS (NWMLS) are synced to her search page, giving her website a competitive advantage in the market. more »

EUGENE, OR – March 22, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — Erik Mehr and IDX, Inc. have come together to provide outstanding service to the clients of Erik Mehr and Associates of Washington. On his IDX-enabled website, Mehr brings area listings to buyers with ease and simplicity in one of the most beautiful cities on the east coast. Northwest MLS (NWMLS) listed properties are now synced to a search option on Mehr website, creating a comprehensive and dynamic online database of local listings. more »

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