Downtown Seattle: decent jobs, passable entertainment, increasingly unaffordable housing. So what’s the solution? According to today’s P-I, the time has come for the incredible shrinking condo. Park two of GMC’s biggest Sierra pickups next to each other. That’s a lot of truck, but a small condominium — at least by Seattle standards. But a local…
Month: August 2006
CNBC : Online housing searches indicate bounce
CNBC’s Jane Wells is reporting that Internet data miners indicate the online search queries for “homes for sale” is up 42%, suggesting that the housing market is poised to pick up. The reader who e-mailed me this article suggests maybe that the opposite is true. People are searching to see what homes are listed for…
Thursday Open Thread
This is your open thread for today. Please post random links and off-topic discussions here.
Anecdote Updates & YAWA
I think it’s time to update you on some of the local action (or lack thereof) that I’ve been keeping my eye on. I’ll take these in the order that they were originally posted. First up, we’ve got the park-backing property down the street from me. The last time I mentioned it (way back in…
Local Media "Starting to Notice Cooling"
Thanks to reader Peckhammer for pointing out an apparently self-contradictory article in today’s Seattle P-I. It begins quite predictably, with the usual examples that purport to show that the Seattle market is still hot, hot, hot… House hunter Vicky Tsai has paid for two inspections of homes she didn’t buy: one that she lost out…