Author: lofaack

April 16, 2024
3 Min Read
CW Team

SEATTLE — A property the size of a city block is on the market, at a price lower than many homes for sale.

If you’re wondering why, well, the property is a cemetery in north Seattle.

Crown Hill Cemetery has been in the north Seattle neighborhood for more than 100 years. And even though the owners are being forced to sell the property, the sellers are adamant this property will remain a cemetery.

The property spans nearly 10 acres. Redfin posted the parcel last Thursday costing nearly $1.5 million. King County Superior Court documents filed in 2021 revealed the owners

Interest rates may still be sky-high, but you should consider buying or selling your home now, according to some Montreal real estate agents.

“I would definitely say if you’re ready to buy, now is a really good time,” said Sarah Kaplan, a real estate broker with Engel & Völkers. “Working with buyers in 2020, 2021 was extremely stressful [with] lots of multiple offers. It’s not fun for buyers. So, if you’re in the market to buy, now is a really good time before things take a turn in that direction.”

Firas Trabulsi, a real estate agent with RE/MAX, adds there

Homes in London took twice as long to sell as properties in Scotland last year, according to new figures from Zoopla.

Houses and flats for sale in the capital were on the market for an average of 40 days in 2023 – compared to 20 days north of the border, the property listings website said.

Properties in Wales were available for an average of 35 days, while the typical timespan was 32 days for a home in both the West Midlands and in Yorkshire and the Humber.

Across Britain as a whole, Zoopla said the average property was on the

The spacious property located at 51 Northgate Road in North Chatham was sold on Feb. 27, 2024 for $1,600,000, or $756 per square foot. The house, built in 1984, has an interior space of 2,116 square feet. The layout of this single-story home includes three bedrooms and four bathrooms. The home’s outer design showcases aa gable roof frame, with roofing materials crafted from asphalt. The property is equipped with forced air heating and a cooling system. The property encompasses a generous 0.6-acre of land.

Additional houses that have recently been sold close by include:

• In December 2022, a 1,490-square-foot home

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article.

The standard 5% to 6% broker commission on home sales may soon become a thing of the past, which could mean big savings for Bay Area home buyers and sellers.

The change in how commissions are priced, set to take effect nationwide in mid-July, is the result of a recent landmark settlement by the real estate industry’s largest trade group to level the playing field for buyers and sellers to negotiate lower rates. According to some analysts, it could cut fees by

More homes hit the market in the Austin area in March, inspiring confidence among home sellers while simultaneously boosting options for first-time homebuyers, according to the latest real estate report by Unlock MLS and the Austin Board of Realtors (ABoR).

There were more than 4,700 new home listings placed on the market in the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in March, which was a 10.2 percent increase year-over-year from March 2023. Housing inventory in the Austin area has now climbed for two straight months, after a previous real estate report showed more than 3,900 new home listings were added

A SMALL rural town about 160km west of Brisbane is now Queensland’s fastest selling house market.

Houses in Goombungee, north of Toowoomba, are selling, on average, in just 10 days, according to the latest REA Market Trends report.

It had a population of 786 in the 2021 census, and has a median sales price of $436,000 – more than double what it was just three years ago.

But houses in the rural town can, and do, sell even faster, with a three-bedroom home that was listed for offering over $409,000 selling for $436,000 after just seven days on the market.