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Tri-Cities Home & Land Sales Jan-Aug 2012

The Tri-Cities real estate market remains strong, and August boasts the highest home sales of the year!  291 single family homes sold in August in the Tri-Cities, up from 257 in July.  Land sales remained steady with 30 lots sold.  We’re also seeing an increase in houses under contract–395 homes and 76 lots have pending sales.  Buyers are taking advantage of the historically low interest rates,

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The Manhattan Project–Richland’s Alphabet Houses

August 13, 2012, marks the 70th anniversary of the Manhattan Project, a top secret research & development project in the Columbia Basin, ordered by President Roosevelt during World War II.  Its primary goal was to produce plutonium for the world’s first atomic bomb at what is now the Hanford Nuclear Site, located near Richland.  The

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Avoid Mistakes in…Seller’s Market???

We were quite surprised to open to the business section of the Sunday Tri-City Herald to an article titled “Avoid Mistakes in Seller’s Market.”  The original article was written by Paul Owers in Florida’s Sun Sentinel.  Granted, it’s a long shot from here to Florida, where prices have increased and fewer homes are available for sale,

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