by richtao | Around Seattle
King County’s annual property tax assessments are understandably not easy to complete in this rapidly-appreciating market. We get questions once in a while about contesting appraisals, which can be done via the procedure outlined on the county’s...
by richtao | Around Seattle
What is Seattle’s BEST neighborhood? Yeah, we’re not wading into this one, but neighborhood/life info site Niche has ranked our neighborhoods based on a variety of factors. Find out how your area stacks up! http://bit.ly/1UeTI8N
by richtao | Around Seattle
The Seattle Times published an article about the Mayor’s desire to regulate AirBnB rentals in the city. This is a hot topic, as the hundreds of online comments attest to. We have noticed an increasing amount of interest from investors and from homeowners with...
by richtao | Around Seattle
Long-time and life-long locals often commiserate together over how much our area has changed, especially so in recent years as the influx of people/technology/attention/ideas has increased. Aside from worsening traffic and higher prices, there have been other...
by richtao | Around Seattle
The Wall Street Journal takes a stab at recommendations for adding/maintaining affordable housing in pricey cities like ours. Among the recommendations is increasing supply (great idea…if there was affordable land to do so on). Short of creating more land out of...
by richtao | Around Seattle
We’re all curious about what our city skyline will look like when all of the new construction downtown has been completed. Here’s a digital simulation of Seattle in the year 2020, when planned and in-progress construction projects have been completed. Wow....