Keane is now a writer for Zillow.com!

I’m very excited and humbled to announce that I will be joining the Zillow.com team of blog writers!    This does not mean I will be abandoning this blog.  The material I will be writing for Zillow will be only mortgage related on a broad scale.  I will continue blogging on my site with [...]

Western Washington Real Estate Trends

There have been a few interesting articles regarding our region.   Lisa Pemberton Butler and Justin Mayo of the Seattle Times reported that for the first time in 3 years, there’s multiple neighborhoods considered “affordable” to the median income for our area.  “King County’s median household income in 2008 was $68,832, according to estimates by the [...]

Seattle’s unique housing market makes national attention

A colleague sent me a great article about the Seattle housing market and how it’s unique geography and building laws have helped shelter Seattle from over-development during the real estate boom. Here’s an excerpt… “Two big factors will help bolster Seattle housing prices in the next few years: stringent building restrictions and basic geography. City [...]

Another ugly day for rates…and inflation is still coming

Rates continued to move upwards today continuing the ugly trend that started last Thursday.  Consumer confidence reports came in much higher than expected.

Could this be the end of low rates?

This last Thursday and Friday were the first days we’ve seen new major news regarding rates. We’ve had a level of consistency lately. The markets are weak, the government buys the bonds, rates stay low. That has been going on for some time now. [...]

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