This house likely went on the market in Redmond even before the announced Microsoft layoffs.

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It’s listed on Zillow for $584,900, but was last sold in January of 2008 for $717,192.  That’s an 18.5% price decline in just a little over 1 year.  Just stop and wonder what kind of price declines there will be 1 year from now, with thousands of additional layoffs, more salary cuts, missing speculators, tighter lending standards, and (hopefully) smarter consumers…

Now is NOT the time to buy