Seattle, WA
is the largest city in the Pacific
Northwest region of the United States. It is located in the U.S. State
of Washington between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, nearly 108 miles
(174 km) south of the United States-Canadian border in King County, of
which it is the county seat. Population 783,661.
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Market Data:
Total Housing Units:
148,093 - Average Home Price: $314,733 |
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Windermere Real Estate, a real
estate company founded and based in the Windermere neighborhood of
Seattle, Washington, was founded by John W. Jacobi in 1972, when he
purchased an eight-agent office. Still privately held, it is now the
largest real estate company in the Pacific Northwest, with over
400 offices and 8,000 agents.
Another
major Seattle Real Estate Broker
is John L. Scott Real Estate.
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Windermere Real Estate
expanded outside Seattle in 1984 with
an office on Bainbridge Island, and ten years later opened offices in
British Columbia and Idaho. As of 2004, Windermere Real Estate
does business in Washington, Oregon, California, British Columbia,
Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Arizona. All Windermere offices are locally
owned and operated.
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Redfin.com
is the real estate
industry's first online Seattle Real Estate Brokerage Company.
By combining maps, listings, tax
records and analytics, Redfin has become Seattle's most popular real
estate brokerage site. Customers who use Redfin.com to buy or sell
properties earn a refund of most of the commission traditionally due
their broker, and get full support in paperwork, negotiations and
closing.
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Redfin opened in 2004 as an online
real estate listings site for Seattle, and now has 35 employees,
including 12 agents in Washington State and California. Its first
innovation was to layer maps with historical prices for each area as
well as information on property taxes and which homes had a view, for
example.
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In February, it introduced a Web site that automates the bidding process
and the commission rebates. The sale of a $500,000 house, for example,
typically yields a 3 percent commission of $15,000 for the buyers agent.
A Redfin customer would get $10,000 back |