By The Tim on October 12, 2012
As some long-time readers will recall, Larry Cragun is a former Issaquah real estate agent who received a brief mention in a previous Friday Flashback for his characterization of bubble blogs as “the babbling and whining of children.” But he really deserves to have a Friday Flashback all to himself. So that’s what he gets [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged 2006, 2007, Cragun, Friday Flashback, Kendra-Todd
By The Tim on July 13, 2012
Here’a a great gem that was posted on Rain City Guide in April 2006 by Chuck Reiling: Are We Brewing A Bubble In Seattle? Probably the most frequent single question I get as a realtor from my friends and clients and contacts is “Are we in a real estate bubble?” …there are two kinds of [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged 2006, Friday Flashback, Rain City Guide, Reiling
By The Tim on May 25, 2012
Here’s a delightfully hyperbolic piece from June 2006, about a year before Seattle’s peak pricing (but eight months after sales began declining year-over-year). By this time most of the rest of the country had figured out the boom was over, but remember, Seattle was special! Blaine Weber, half of the big-time local architecture team of [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged 2006, architect, Friday Flashback, Weber
By The Tim on April 13, 2012
From a NWMLS talking points memo that was circulated in June 2006: …the forecasts for housing price growth are calling for booming values in the state of Washington. For the June issue of MONEY Magazine, Fiserv Lending Solutions and Moody’s Economy.com provided forecasts for the coming 12 months for 380 metro areas – they predict [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged 2006, Friday Flashback, NWMLS, propaganda, Sohn
By The Tim on January 6, 2012
I was just reminiscing with a friend about our old pal Elizabeth Rhodes, the Seattle Times’ former real estate reporter, when I came across this gem from July 2006, one year before Seattle homes hit their price peak, and the same month the Case-Shiller 20-city composite hit its peak: Local homes: Investments that just keep [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged 2006, Friday Flashback, Rhodes
By The Tim on December 9, 2011
I was browsing through some old posts when I came across this one from April 2006, in which I highlighted an email I received from a local real estate salesman: Regardless of what happens with the bubble the longer you wait to purchase a home the harder it will become. The only time I would [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged 2006, Friday Flashback
