By The Tim on October 31, 2007
Here’s the local press’ take on yesterday’s Case-Shiller data. For the most part, the reports come across as suprisingly even-handed. The biggest exception to that was the P-I’s original headline for Mr. Cohen’s piece: Seattle-area home-price appreciation leads nation again. It has since been changed to the less misleading: Mixed news on home prices. Home-price [...]
| Tagged Case-Shiller, Cohen, Seattle_PI, Seattle_Times
By The Tim on October 30, 2007
If you’re reading this, lucky you! It means that the DNS change went through, and you are now viewing Seattle Bubble on its brand new host, Host Gator. Yesterday our old host Dreamhost decided to move the site to a different internal server with no warning, consequently taking it entirely offline and resulting in “bad_httpd_conf” [...]
| Tagged administrative
By The Tim on October 30, 2007
The latest data from Case-Shiller has been released. Here’s a blurb from the press release: “At both the national and metro area levels, the fall in home prices is showing no real signs of a slowdown or turnaround,” says Robert J. Shiller, Chief Economist at MacroMarkets LLC. “Year-over-year and monthly price returns are continuing to [...]
| Tagged behind the cycle, Case-Shiller
By The Tim on October 29, 2007
Elizabeth Rhodes hits us this morning with a fun little morsel: Developers dangle discounts, toys to lure home buyers. (I wonder why this article wasn’t in the big weekend real estate section? Hmm… Edit: It would appear that the answer to that question is that they were saving it for the front page [pdf].) Puget [...]
| Tagged builders, developers, incentives, Rhodes, Seattle_Times
By The Tim on October 28, 2007
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By The Tim on October 26, 2007
Mark Trahant is definitely my favorite writer for any of the local papers. If we ever get around to having a Seattle Bubble meet-up, he’s definitely invited, and his drink is on me. His latest piece continues to hammer home the reality of the world we live in today: mortgage / housing market is a [...]
| Tagged mortgages, Seattle_PI, subprime, Trahant
