By The Tim on March 17, 2009
I was looking through some old posts on here and came across one from November 2006 by Synthetik titled God Save the Queen. In it, he linked to an Aubrey Cohen piece about a developer converting two apartment buildings on lower Queen Anne to condos.
Let’s check in and see how those conversions are doing, [...]
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By S-Crow on October 22, 2008
On my way home from coaching my soccer team yesterday evening I drove by a local credit union whose parking lot seems to be filling up not with customers per se, but with car repo’s. If you didn’t know better, it would look like a used car dealership. I’ve kept an eye on the lot [...]
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By The Tim on October 20, 2008
Okay, I had this story emailed or IM’d to me by about half a dozen people over the weekend, so I guess I’d better at least mention it :^)
Former WaMu president lists home for nearly 2x 2005 purchase price:
Stephen Rotella, who was president and chief operating officer of Washington Mutual when it failed last month [...]
Posted in News | Tagged anecdote, WaMu
By The Tim on July 18, 2008
From an article on home staging in the Puget Sound Business Journal:
For [Seattle home stager Jan] Sewell, who is also a Realtor with Windermere Real Estate and owner of her staging business since 1997, today’s market is unlike anything she has ever experienced.
“I have been through a couple of slow markets in Seattle before, but [...]
Posted in News | Tagged anecdote, Business Journal, staging
By The Tim on July 1, 2008
Okay, when I saw this this morning, I just had to mention it. There’s a little 8-unit townhome complex in my neighborhood (Kenmore) that I have mentioned on here a number of times in the past. Most recently, two of the eight units were up for sale. As of this morning, four [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged anecdote, condos, Kenmore, townhomes
By The Tim on June 2, 2008
The condo battle in my neighborhood (Kenmore) seems to be heating up. In April I mentioned a nearby townhome in an 8-unit complex that went up for sale at $360,000, 20% higher than any unit in the complex has ever sold for in the past, and a mere $30k less than a unit just [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged anecdote, condos, Kenmore
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