I recently saw report with a list of the metros across the country that are thought to be the best places for single moms to live.
They looked at different aspects of a city that might make it more attractive for a single mother to raise a family and came up with this list of five metrics, and the following top 10 list:
1. Women’s Income 2. Housing Affordability 3. Crime 4. Education Spending 5. Walk Score
What do you think? How does Seattle rank on those metrics? I’d love your thoughts!
Is Seattle one of the worst hit neighborhoods?
You can escape all the news about homes going into foreclosure these days. It’s not all doom and gloom. But some areas are doing better than others.
According to a report by CNN Money, using RealtyTrac data, it is clear that some areas were harder hit by foreclosures in 2011 than others, with the brunt of the down economy felt on the West Coast, with literally zero zip codes in the Northeast appearing in the top 100 hardest hit zip codes.
Can you believe Las Vegas zip codes account for 60 percent of the top ten list, California for 30 percent and Atlanta for 10 percent, again showing the epidemic is concentrated more highly in specific areas. Sadly, Las Vegas also accounts for all five slots in the top five hardest hit zip codes.
The overall landscape of foreclosures will change in 2012 as the backlog resulting from partial freezes by servicers under investigation for robo-signature fraud (wherein foreclosures were illegally processed without human review), some predicting as much as a 25 percent spike in foreclosure filings as the backlog clears. Recent reporting shows that mortgage delinquency levels in December were unchanged and the levels have been relatively stagnant of late, which again, will not likely be the case for the full year.
MyNorthwestHomes.com 