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Buying or Selling a Condo? Start With These Two Documents

Sep 29, 2026

What I've learned reading the HOA packets for a couple dozen condos this year.

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Is it really the strongest buyer's market on record?

Sep 22, 2026

Redfin says 58% more sellers than buyers. King County's version: 3.8 houses for sale for every one a buyer took, and buyers held.

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Does Washington tax your house when you die?

Sep 15, 2026

The line is $3 million, it counts the whole value of the house, and couples cannot double it. Two minutes tells you whether it applies to you.

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How's The Market Nowadays?

Aug 21, 2026

The Eastside on one page: what the numbers say, and what the cities have already decided gets built next.

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The corner store is coming back

Aug 11, 2026

Kirkland's 20-year plan names it explicitly. Bothell already made it law. Here's what that means for the right properties.

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Not one Eastside city sold at asking price in June

Jul 29, 2026

The last time that happened was 2011. Here's what the rest of the June data says.

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89 percent

Jul 14, 2026

Nearly nine in ten people who work in Bellevue live somewhere else. That one number explains a lot about Eastside prices.

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The city that has no choice

Jun 16, 2026

Redmond's growth obligation isn't a planning preference. Its own documents say current zoning can't meet it.

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The rule change that made the math work

May 19, 2026

A July 2025 vote that quietly changed the economics of building on your block.

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What's opening up for the next generation of Eastside homeowners.

Apr 14, 2026

Some Eastside lots can now do a lot more than one home.

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Site Lines by Rami Al-Kabra

What's changing on the Eastside, explained by someone who helps shape it.

© 2026 Rami Al-Kabra.
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