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2022 Real Estate Market Forecast

As 2021 comes to an end, everyone is still feeling the pandemic’s influence on the world. In the real estate market, it was challenging year to buy a home. The key factors in this year’s market were low inventory, low interest rates, high demand and fierce competition. If you were lucky enough to win a competitive offer,

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Join us for Trick or Treat in Fremont from 2-5pm on Halloween

Once again, the Fremont community is joining together to provide our community with a chance to Trick-or-Treat, in the daylight, at familiar shops and restaurants throughout the Center of the Universe. On Sunday, October 31st from 2p – 5p. we are excited to safely join our fellow businesses in this annual tradition. We will hand out treats to

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Fall Market Update 2021

As we approach the end of the year many fatigued buyers wonder whether we will continue to see a rise in real estate prices. According to Reuters and other news outlets prices are expected to rise into 2022, perhaps just at a little slower than the pace we have seen in 2021. What has caused

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Real Estate Updates Q4 2020 and 2021 Forecast

2020 was whirlwind year for the real estate markets. Low interest rates, competitive buying, election panic selling, and all time highs in the purchase of luxury real estate, all during a pandemic! 2020 was a good year to be a seller. 2020 saw record shattering low interest rates for 30 year fixed mortgages creating a

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Community Living 3: Co-Living, Collectives, Cooperatives

CO-LIVING Our first introduction to fostering relationships with our co-inhabitants is often with our family, siblings parents, then friends and roomates as we grow. The Home is the original intentional community.  We Co-Live with our parents and brothers and sisters, and sometimes extended family and we learn to navigate our personal spheres and they interact

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Home Buyers Happy Hour + Workshop

Looking to Buy? Home Buyers Happy Hour + Workshop Join us at our office in Fremont for a free community Home Buyers Happy Hour + Workshop! September 19th 5:30-8:00 Learn about financing options and how to pick an agent. We will discuss various and “outside the box” housing options available in today’s housing market. Easy climate change

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The Roost – A New Affordable Urban Co-Living Community

Introducing-The Roost – 901 Hiawatha Pl S, By David Neiman (See here to apply)   Cedar frond entry mural by Urban Atrworks The Roost is an innovative new micro housing development designed from the ground up as affordable market rate housing aimed at supporting and strengthening Seattle’s arts community.  As part of our launch, we are doing

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All aboard! Our electric train is a neighborhood hit!

Electric Train Display Window The train display windows at our retail location at 43rd and Fremont Ave. N. have become a neighborhood Icon….At least in eyes of the little ones. Eva had a vision of an electric model train in the window long before we even had a location chosen. As soon as the paper

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Meet the New Faces of Green: A Family-Owned Business Sprouts Up Right in Our Backyard

by Eva Otto and Eric Thomas “We are passionate about the environment, conservation, design, and sustainable building,” says Tyler Reith as he leads us through the recently expanded showroom of Greenhome Solutions, Seattle’s locally owned green building supply store, located just south of the Ballard Bridge. Judging by the neat racks of sustainable flooring samples,

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