Gerhard Ade writes about real estate and more.
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
- Real Estate Bubble? (2019)
- Bad housing news (2019)
- Buying Season (2019)
- Seattle Home Prices (2018)
- Seattle Area Listings (2016)
- Seattle Eastside Living (2016)
- Redmond, Washington (2012)
- Kirkland (2012)
- Woodinville Vinterra (2018)
- Totem Lake – Kirkland’s Armpit? (2015)
- How to Sell in a Sellers’ Market (2016)
- Rambler Home Sales in High Demand (2017)
- The Seattle area home inventory hits a new low. (2017)
Real Estate Know How
- Down Payment Assistance (2019)
- Multigenerational Living (2020)
- Show homes in Washington (2020)
- The best of two worlds (2019)
- What’s the value of your home? (2019)
- Move-in-ready (2018)
- House Hunting in Snohomish and King County (2018)
- Washington State County Websites (2018)
- Oh Rats, I didn’t know this! (2011)
Personal
- 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)
- Real Estate is Personal (2014)
- The difference between “would do” and “did do” is thank you! (2015)
- What Home Buyers teach me (2015)
Real Estate Business
- Quality Real Estate Service Has Nothing to do with Home Price (2020)
- Home Inspection: buyer beware! (2020)
- Washington Seller Disclosure: Buyer Beware (2017)
- Real Estate Responds to the Pandemic (2020)
- Seller Disclosure: Buyer Beware (2015)
- Time is of the essence. (2015)
- 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)
- Real Estate Farms (2016)
- 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)
- Escalation Clauses – boon for sellers, but bane for buyers (2017)
- Real Estate: Path to Wealth Creation (2016)
- Sold? Not so fast! (2015)
- Why are they selling? (2015)
Real Estate Marketing
- Zillow Just Called Your Listing a Northwest Retreat (2020)
- Real Estate and Social Media (2017)
- Sell your home on Facebook? (2017)
- What Zillow Does and Knows (2020)
- Your Next Home Is Just a Click or a Snap Away (2014)
- Real Estate Technology – disruptive or constructive? (2014)
- Mark Zuckerberg versus Upstairs Downstairs (2016)
- Where is Your Listing? (2015)
- Willing buyer, willing seller? (2019)
- Average Home, Special Listing (2018)
- Seattle Real Estate Search at the Source (2017)
- Your Home on the Web (2016)
- 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)
