Bellingham Real Estate

Despite the downturn in the housing market, millions of homes will still be bought and sold. At a time when price negotiations have become more vigorous, many buyers and sellers neglect one important element that could cost them thousands of dollars: the home inspection. Mike Kuhn, co-author of “The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Home ...

Freeland, Washington now has a real estate web site dedicated to the South Whidbey Island area homes market.  The new Whidbey Island real estate site is located on the web at WhidbeyIslandRealEstate.us.  The site provides Freeland area residents with links to searching Whidbey Island area homes for ...

In Birch Bay, WA developers have invested about $30 million buying land, installing infrastructure and building a sales house, but not one of the 650 high-end homes planned for the Horizon at Semiahmoo development has been constructed. That’s about to change. “We’ve got the first phase essentially completed with about 74 ...

The National Association of Realtors is launching a $40 million advertising campaign to encourage Americans to buy houses amid the ongoing housing slump. The Realtors' campaign includes $26 million in television advertising, about double what the group spent in 2006. Television ads will begin running Jan. 15, while new radio ads will begin to ...

Selling a home with a lease-option agreement can be tricky and often falls apart. Lets say you have a rental house that your renters would like to buy in a few years.  You were  told that tax-wise, it might be to your benefit if you lease-option the house to your renters. How does a lease-option work, and what expenses are the renters ...