Jim Allotta is in a tough industry. His business, Allotta Appraisal Services, has faced some challenges in the past year including a declining housing market and predatory lenders who try to dictate appraisers’ work.
The previously booming housing market brought appraisers who didn’t know much about the process and told lenders what they wanted to hear.
The [...]

Aldercreek and Windy Ridge Vineyards, one of the leading providers of grapes to wineries in the state of Washington, will sell 680+/- acres in 19 parcels at a real estate auction on Thursday, November 6th at 11 a.m. J.P. King Auction Company will manage the sale. The established and award-winning Aldercreek and Windy Ridge [...]

The number of homes sold in the state continued to slide in the second quarter, the Washington Center for Real Estate Research at Washington State University reported Thursday.
The sales of 89,380 homes in the quarter that ended June 30 was 8.5 percent below the sales in the first quarter and 31.7 percent below the second [...]

Default Research, the premier provider of Seattle foreclosure data, is reporting that King, Pierce and Snohomish counties saw Notice of Trustee Sales increase to 3,379 in the second quarter of 2008, up from 2,743 in the first quarter. The three hardest hit cities in the region were Tacoma (464), Seattle (412), and Puyallap (191).
“There are [...]