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Poll: The $8k mortgage buyer tax credit expires in just over a month. I am…

By The Tim on March 21, 2010 | 4 Responses

Click “continue reading” below or use the sidebar to vote in this poll.

Posted in Polls | Tagged government_meddling, Polls, tax credit | 4 Responses

Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2010-03-20

By The Tim on March 20, 2010 | 6 Responses

Headlines in today's Seattle Times RE section focus on fixer-uppers & downsizing. Quite a shift from a couple years ago. http://is.gd/aySqh #
It's always a good time to generate a commission! http://is.gd/aBKCJ #
Zillow teams up with John L. Scott – http://digg.com/u1QNSW #
While you're waiting for me to put up today's post, enjoy some frogs. http://tinyurl.com/y9gujhn #
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Posted in News | Tagged link_roundup, Twitter | 6 Responses

PNWHS & REBarCamp Audio Pencasts

By The Tim on March 19, 2010 | 1 Response

For anyone who is interested in listening to some straight audio from yesterday’s PNWHS event and one session from today’s REBarCamp event, I present the pencasts below.
Lennox Scott’s rousing main talk begins on page three of session 2. Float over the number in the lower-right of a pencast to jump between pages, then click [...]

Posted in Local, News | Tagged appraisal, industry insiders, Local Economy, NAR, PNWHS, predictions, Scott, Zillow | 1 Response

Morsels of Market Musings from PNWHS

By The Tim on March 19, 2010 | 58 Responses

Rather than editorializing on everything I heard at the Pacific Northwest Housing Summit today, I thought you all might just enjoy some unfiltered quotes from the industry professionals.
Bret Bertolin
Senior Analyst, Washington State Economic and Revenue Forecast Council
On the broad economy…
We believe that the economy has turned the corner, and it pick up steam by mid-year.
On [...]

Posted in Local, News | Tagged appraisal, industry insiders, Local Economy, NAR, PNWHS, predictions, Scott, Zillow | 58 Responses

Local Real Estate Insiders Brainstorm the Market

By The Tim on March 18, 2010 | 17 Responses

I’ll be spending all day today and tomorrow attending a pair of local real estate events. Today is the Pacific Northwest Housing Summit, at which a distinguished panel of industry insiders will be discussing the current market, the future of the market, and probably a bunch of sales tactics for sellers of various real [...]

Posted in Local, News | Tagged industry insiders, PNWHS, REBarCamp | 17 Responses

Puget Sound Counties Interactive February Update

By The Tim on March 17, 2010 | 20 Responses

Let’s take a look at February NWMLS statistics from around the sound. As usual, courtesy Tableau Software (available free to use online), the Around the Sound update is rocking sweet interactive data visualizations.
Feel free to download the old charts in Excel 2007 and Excel 2003 format. To get specific info about a certain [...]

Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged around-the-sound, graphs, inventory, King_County, Kitsap, NWMLS, Pierce, SAAS, sales, Skagit, Snohomish, Statistics, Tableau, Thurston, Whatcom | 20 Responses