How much is Sound Housing Quarterly paying Seattle Bubble for that advertising?

Yes, I know they are both you, but surely they have separate accounting books.

And Tim, sorry if my original comment sounded snippy – it actually just took me quite a while to realize that there were actually new posts, since I don’t use a feed reader to read your blog… I just thought you were out of town for a while… =P

Thanks for your concern though.

Absolutely not, Seattle Bubble will continue as normal. This is in addition to the regularly scheduled Seattle Bubble content and updates.

It is pretty much impossible to consistently support yourself on donations or advertising at Tim’s size, and agents and companies will pay $75 a quarter for charts they can show their clients that don’t say “seattlebubble” on them. Instead of complaining the bubbleheads should be sending the link to every real estate agent and fence sitting buyer they know, so tim can keep seattle bubble alive. He tried to do donations instead of advertising and it failed to meet his needs. I didn’t donate because I don’t donate to companies, but I did send his link out to a number of real estate people I know.

Yes, it was the seller-funded downpayment assistance programs. FHA gave them the ax.

There’s been a couple “broad market” news that point to the beginning of a recovery of the real estate market nationwide – like this one:

That housing data is from September. This is October.

Nuff said.

The original premise you chose was a good one. Real Estate people or people associated with the Real Estate industry are sales people. In fact you could also say that doctors or lawyers today are sales people.

Once you align yourself with these sales people you become one of them.

My concern is that your sales charts and graphs will go down the same road as Trends Graphix. I have the vision of some Real Estate sales guy pulling out your quarterly report to beat up a seller.

I’d just like to point out how far this site has come in the past year. It seems to me that there is a profit center here while maintaining integrity.

Diversification is always better not only for you but for the education of the community.

Amarjit

Yes, I do stats much more frequently than I post them. But your influence did reduce my agent bias, and I can not guarantee even to myself that I am totally without agent bias. So your stats as a double check on my thinking from time to time…quarterly if not daily, is well worth the price of admission.

Plus, I do want to support your efforts to thank you, in hindsight, for helping to pull my brain out of my butt so many times in the past.

1) Right now I’m the sole writing force behind the newsletter, but I want to leave room for contributions from local market experts in the future. Also, technically the company is co-owned by my wife and I, and she does help me in an editorial capacity.

2) I used a number of data sources – NWMLS, county records, Case-Shiller, OFHEO, Washington State Office of Financial Management, Washington State Employment Security Department, and a few others.

3) I promise not to flame any subscribers. :^)

To be honest, I would certainly appreciate your support, but an agent such as yourself that is paying close attention to the market already and doing frequent stats pulls from the NWMLS database probably won’t gain any new insight from SHQ. We have two target audiences in mind for SHQ: A) Agents that either don’t know how or don’t have the time to pull market stats (from the NWMLS and elsewhere) of their own. B) Consumers.

Again though, I’m definitely not going to tell you not to subscribe :^)

1) Who is we? Who beyond The Tim is “we”?

2) Does the data come from NWMLS or County records or both?

3) If I susbscribe in support of you, will you later flame me for having done so :)

If you’re a buyer, patiently waiting on the sidelines for the next several years.

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Dispatch/market-dispatches-102708.aspx

It would be interesting to see your analysis/commentary on those.

stephen – This week actually. I have to catch up on the two lost months, post a couple good related articles I’ve read lately, and update on the Sound Housing Quarterly project.

Jillayne – Absolutely, please feel free to use the graphs in presentations. At a minimum, I’d prefer credit for Sound Housing Quarterly (to hopefully point some more paying subscribers my way), but both would be fine too.

As a subscriber, can I use the graphs in my presentations to Realtors and lenders? I think you’ll say yes. So then how would you like me to credit you….do you want me to send people to SB, or Housing Quarterly….or both?

Thanks for publishing the newsletter. This is a great value to someone like me who must have current stats (not the propaganda offered by the REIC) avail and complied in one easy to find place on a moment’s notice.

I’m sure you’ll find a huge number of subscribers in the professional real estate community. Your data might turn out to be the key that listing agents need in order to convince sellers to price realistically. Best of luck!

As far as the data for a quarterly report about Real Estate, there is a sucker born every minute so there will be those people who will “join the club.” It will be an obscure place where people meet to discuss the next conspiracy theory about why we can’t buy a house.

The charm of this blog is the personalities. If someone were smart they would anounce the right to use and republish the discussions here. The archives would close every three months and be sold. Maybe a book, a news letter, a retrospective, of what’s been discussed would make good reading. Someone would have to edit itm of course.

I would really like to see what Renters Are Losers would be saying today, but then again we have rules here now.