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The Open House Treasure Hunt is Back!

It's a "Game Of Homes"! Who will win? Your Treasure Awaits during Open House Treasure Hunt presented by The Cascade Team Real Estate!

"When you find the hidden coffee cup text TREASURE to (425) 223-4655 to enter to win a prize!"

Join us on Saturday, May 18th for our Annual Open House Treasure Hunt.

Tour homes and win over $200,000 in Cash & Prizes!

96.5 Jack FM will be at select locations with live remotes and more chances to win!

Homes must be listed by May 16th!

Register HERE to have your home included in the Open House Treasure Hunt

What can you expect during the Open House Treasure Hunt this year?

Our marketing efforts include:

  • 80 Radio Spots - 96.5 Jack FM (around 1…

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  • 28.5 percent overall increase in active listings
  • 5.8 percent gain in pending sales
  • 2.4 percent rise in median prices for sales of single family homes
  • Slight 1.9% decrease in closings

KIRKLAND, Washington (May 6, 2019) – Housing activity during April signaled good news for buyers
in Western Washington as inventory continued to grow, the rate of price increases was slowing in many
areas (and even decreasing in a few counties), and mortgage rates remained low.

Northwest Multiple Listing Service statistics for last month show a 28.5 percent overall increase in active
listings compared to the same month a year ago, a 5.8 percent gain in pending sales, and a 2.4 percent rise
in median prices for sales of single family homes and condos that…

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The Open House Treasure Hunt is Back!

Join us on Saturday, May 18th for our Annual Open House Treasure Hunt.

Tour homes and win over $200,000 in Cash & Prizes!

96.5 Jack FM will be at select locations with live remotes and more chances to win!

Homes must be listed by May 16th!

Register HERE to have your home included in the Open House Treasure Hunt

What can you expect during the Open House Treasure Hunt this year?

Our marketing efforts include:

  • 80 Radio Spots - 96.5 Jack FM (around 1 Million Impressions will be generated from the radio spots!)
  • Live Radio Remotes - Website promotion for each remote on the station's website
  • Jack FM Home Page Banner
  • Inclusion on JackSeattle.com with events, newsletters & contest…

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‘Facebook is discriminating against people based upon who they are and where they live,’ says HUD secretary.

By Russell Brandom:

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has filed charges against Facebook for housing discrimination, escalating the company’s ongoing fight over discrimination in its ad targeting system. The charges build on a complaint filed in August, finding that there is reasonable cause to believe Facebook has served ads that violate the Fair Housing Act.

“Facebook is discriminating against people based upon who they are and where they live,” HUD Secretary Ben Carson said in a statement. “Using a computer to limit a person’s housing choices can be just as discriminatory as slamming a door in someone’s face.”

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Sammamish, Woodinville, Snoqualmie and more make the list!

Looking at this following list there is also a definite correlation between the wealthiest zip codes and the highest housing prices as well. Feel free to use our advanced search function here and check out any of the zip codes yourself!

Search For Homes HERE

Using IRS data, we were able to get a snapshot of how much money people from Washington state earned in 2016, the most recent year they have numbers for. And of the top 20 wealthiest zip codes in the state, all 20 have an average income of more than $130,000.

The average income is calculated as an average of all the tax returns from each zip code.

While zip codes can often cover more than one locale, this (and last) year's…

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  • February pending sales dropped nearly 14 percent.
  • Showing activity dropped more than 41 percent the week of the heaviest snow.
  • Inventory levels show a 42.3 percent jump from twelve months ago.
  • Prices appear to have bottomed out to around year-ago levels.
  • Buyers no longer going down and some feel like interest rates are on sale.
  • As February temperatures plunged, prices in most counties started heating up, rising from a year ago as well as when compared to January.

KIRKLAND, Washington (March 6, 2019) – Seattle’s snowiest month in 50 years had an obvious
chilling effect on February’s housing activity, agreed officials with Northwest Multiple Listing Service.
Statistics for last month show pending sales dropped nearly 14 percent…

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There’s no shortage of advice online about the best time to list, and it all goes something like this: The vast majority of home sales occur when the weather heats up, and homes sold during this time of year tend to attract high prices. Conventional wisdom tells us it’s best to list early in the year. That way, you’re sure to benefit from the Spring peak in sales, and the premium pricing during the warmer months as well. List too late, we’re warned, and you could miss this warm weather bump.

At first blush, this conventional wisdom seems particularly wise. After all, there’s one thing that all homeowners looking to sell have in common — they want to do so as quickly as possible, and for as much money as possible. Listing early, in theory, means…

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When it comes to quality of life and affordability around Seattle, don’t look in Seattle. Try looking at Sammamish instead, which was recently ranked in the top 10 best places to live.

Just over half an hour from Seattle, and closer still to major tech corporate campuses in Redmond and Bellevue, Sammamish attracts many of the people who work for Microsoft, Amazon, Expedia and other tech giants. The homes are pricey here, but average salaries are high too: Median family income is roughly $165,000, more than twice the median for the other spots MONEY analyzed. The current average list price for a single family residence in Sammamish is $1,227,275.

With an official motto of "Building Community Together," the city of Sammamish in King County,…

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Selling your home these days isn’t as simple as it used to be. With the explosion of real estate marketing on the Internet, prospective buyers can do their initial home shopping online. While this means that your listed property will be viewed by more prospective customers, it also means that many other properties will also be showcased, making for a much more competitive market.

While sales in the existing home market are expected to take a tick up early in 2020, there is a lot of concern about raising interest rates and economic uncertainty in the future. We are also looking for increasing inventory levels to start as early as March of this year with predictions of the greatest amount of housing inventory to hit the market in five years by May.

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KIRKLAND, Washington (February 7, 2019) – Homebuyers around Washington state are making their
way back to the market, hoping to take advantage of improving inventory, attractive interest rates, and
more approachable sellers, according to officials with Northwest Multiple Listing Service.

Northwest MLS statistics for January show year-over-year improvement in the volume of new listings
and total inventory, along with moderating selling prices. Although fewer pending sales (mutually
accepted offers) were reported than a year ago (down about 3.3 percent), January was the smallest yearover-
year decline since May 2018 when the drop was about 2.7 percent.

Commenting on the MLS statistics summarizing last month’s activity, broker Gary O’Leyar said
January’s…

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