Gerhard Ade writes about real estate and more for nearly 10 years.
Below is a select list of Gerhard’s blog posts he wrote beginning in March 2011. These posts are the web versions of The View from the Street newsletter which Gerhard publishes at the end of every month. He reports on the Seattle real estate market, addresses the best way to market homes, muses about the real estate business, and informs on the transactional and legal aspects of real estate. Not all posts are about real estate. Some posts are of a personal nature, such as Gerhard’s lunch with Jeff Bezos and his last visit to Germany.
Market Conditions
- Should you buy a larger home or a second one? (2021)
- Real Estate Values (2020)
- Real Estate Bubble? (2019)
- Bad housing news (2019)
- Buying Season (2019)
- Seattle Home Prices (2018)
- Woodinville Vinterra (2018)
- Rambler Home Sales in High Demand (2017)
- The Seattle area home inventory hits a new low. (2017)
- How to Sell in a Sellers’ Market (2016)
- Seattle Area Listings (2016)
- Seattle Eastside Living (2016)
- Totem Lake – Kirkland’s Armpit? (2015)
- Redmond, Washington (2012)
- Kirkland (2012)
Real Estate Know-How
- Multigenerational Living (2020)
- Show homes in Washington (2020)
- Down Payment Assistance (2019)
- The best of two worlds (2019)
Real Estate Marketing
- Zillow Just Called Your Listing a Northwest Retreat (2020)
- What Zillow Does and Knows (2020)
- Willing buyer, willing seller? (2019)
- Average Home, Special Listing (2018)
- Seattle Real Estate Search at the Source (2017)
- Real Estate and Social Media (2017)
- Sell your home on Facebook? (2017)
- Your Home on the Web (2016)
- Mark Zuckerberg versus Upstairs Downstairs (2016)
- Where is Your Listing? (2015)
- Your Next Home Is Just a Click or a Snap Away (2014)
- Real Estate Technology – disruptive or constructive? (2014)
- The Smells of Real Estate (2014)
- Pictures of Your Home You Wish You Had (2014)
- The most profitable home improvement is not your kitchen. (2014)
- Home Listing Words Matter (2014)
- Millennial Home Buyers? (2014)
The Business of Real Estate
- Is There Really a Real Estate Panic? (2020)
- Real Estate Responds to the Pandemic (2020)
- Quality Real Estate Service Has Nothing to do with Home Price (2020)
- Home Inspection: buyer beware! (2020)
- Wait, you can’t sell this home! It may not be yours. (2020)
- A house on fire (2019)
- Real Estate Commission (2019)
- Signing Before Closing (2019)
- No need to know about real estate (2018)
- Scarcity of homes for sale is still the number one problem (2018)
- Your Contingent Offer May Be Welcome (2017)
- No Carfax report for homes (2017)
- Personal Property: yes, you can take it with you (2017)
- Escalation Clauses – boon for sellers, but bane for buyers (2017)
- Washington Seller Disclosure: Buyer Beware (2017)
- Real Estate Farms (2016)
- Real Estate: Path to Wealth Creation (2016)
- Sold? Not so fast! (2015)
- Why are they selling? (2015)
- Seller Disclosure: Buyer Beware (2015)
- Time is of the essence. (2015)
- The CFPB Changes Everything (2015)
- Annie, the Legal Hotline Lawyer (2015)
- The Case-Shiller Index is Useless (2014)
- Real Estate is a Racket (2014)
- Seattle Area Real Estate: Fingerspitzengefühl (2012)
Personal
- Good Friday (2021)
- How I came to love Camano Island (2021)
- Creative real estate: the reason I keep going (2020)
- The Beautiful Magic Happens Behind Closed Doors (2020)
- Christmas Traditions (2019)
- Celebrating 100 months (2019)
- The year I bought Jeff Bezos lunch (2019)
- My Germany Journey (2019)
- Just my type (2018)
- Personal Real Estate (2018)
- Success in Real Estate (2018)
- RSVP Real Estate (2018)
- Why I’m not a Realtor® (2018)
- Homes Away From Home (2018)
- In Real Estate Trust is Everything (2017)
- I’m a Full-Time Real Estate Agent (2017)
- Real Estate Barista (2017)
- Bothell McMenamins Anderson School (2015)
- Who’s Who in Real Estate (2015)
- The difference between “would do” and “did do” is thank you! (2015)
- What Home Buyers teach me (2015)
- Real Estate is Personal (2014)
