Seattle housing market tips onto the downward slope
Scales tip in favor of home buyers – Seattle Times Economists’ predictions have come true. Like most of the rest of the nation, the greater Seattle-area housing market has slowed to the point where...
View ArticleMore on investors bouying the Seattle Real Estate Market
The Seattle Bubble blog pointed me at this article from Forbes listing Seattle as the best place in the US to flip a house. Anyone shopping for a house within twice the median price in Seattle isn’t...
View ArticleDrop Foreseen in Median Price of U.S. Homes – New York Times
Drop Foreseen in Median Price of U.S. Homes – New York Times Perhaps the most prominent housing booster was David Lereah, the chief economist at the National Association of Realtors until April. In...
View ArticleEdith Macefield is my new hero
Old Ballard’s new hero digs in as retail project envelops her home Karen Ducey / Seattle Post-Intelligencer I used to drive by this house every day. Before they were building condos on the site, there...
View ArticleCondo owners lose their view… duh.
Condo owners struggle for views as Seattle rises – Seattle Post-Intelligencer Benjamin Shanfelder signed up to buy a condominium on the west side of downtown Seattles Cosmopolitan building in 2005...
View ArticlePaying for others’ home loan mistakes
Paying for others’ home loan mistakes – Bill Virgin, Seattle Post-Intelligencer YOU WERE the careful, responsible sort of home buyer. You took out a plain-vanilla, fixed-rate, 30-year mortgage,...
View ArticleCan we finally say that Seattle’s housing market is no longer defying the...
Home prices slip to ’06 level – Seattle Times State foreclosure rate up from ’06 – Seattle Times Elizabeth Rhodes and the Real Estate Industry professionals that she quotes as part of her highly-biased...
View ArticleGoodbye Weathered Wall/I-Spy/etc…
Although it has been vacant a while, I’d always hoped that this site would eventually feature another club. It was a fun place to play even with it’s weird entrance. I miss it. What is going to...
View Articlefreebie iPhone app idea for the real estate websites
yes, this one is for you redfin, windermere, et al. Normally, I’d sit on idea like this, but lets be real. I’m not going to write this one. So, as a customer, I’m asking you guys to do it for me. I...
View ArticleThe coming Seattle-area traffic disaster?
Is there something that the Washington State Department of Transportation isn’t telling us? Simultaneously, there are several large-scale transportation projects in planning or preparation stages:...
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