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Q4 Issue of Sound Housing Quarterly Available Now

By The Tim on January 29th, 2009 at 6:00 AM · 13 Comments

FYI: The latest edition of Sound Housing Quarterly has been published.

Sound Housing Quarterly is a subscription-based journal of the Puget Sound residential real estate market. If you or someone you know would benefit from a view on the housing market that provides accessibility, broad geographic coverage, and all the latest information condensed into a single package, head over to the website at HousingQuarterly.com to download a free preview of the current issue and to learn more about what Sound Housing Quarterly is and how to subscribe.

If you are involved in the Puget Sound housing market in any way, as a home buyer, a home seller, a real estate agent, or a real estate investor—Sound Housing Quarterly is written with you in mind.

This 40-page publication provides an overview of the variety of factors affecting the Puget Sound housing market, as well as a detailed look at county-by-county conditions, and a look at where the market is headed in the coming months.

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Announcing Sound Housing Quarterly, a Puget Sound Housing Journal

By The Tim on October 24th, 2008 at 8:21 PM · 34 Comments

I’m proud to announce the latest project that I have been working on related to Seattle Bubble: Sound Housing Quarterly.

Sound Housing Quarterly is a subscription-based journal of the Puget Sound residential real estate market. It was created for people who like the kind of analysis and insight offered on Seattle Bubble, but crave…

  • …greater accessibility.
  • …coverage of counties other than King.
  • …less cluttered charts.
  • …all the latest information in a single package.

Sound Housing Quarterly was created for anyone involved in the Puget Sound housing market in any way—as a home buyer, a home seller, or a real estate agent.

If this describes you, head over to the website at HousingQuarterly.com to download a free preview of the first edition and to learn more about what Sound Housing Quarterly is and how to subscribe.

If you have donated $25 or more to Seattle Bubble in the past few months and would like a complimentary copy, please contact me via email.

Feel free to leave feedback on this post about the journal or the project in general.

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Presenting The Naked Loon: Your New Favorite Website

By The Tim on April 1st, 2008 at 5:00 AM · 17 Comments

Behold, I bring you parody:

The Naked Loon | Puget Sound's Most Spectacular Newspaper
Go to The Naked Loon. Right now.

The greater* Puget Sound region now has a new source for… um… news, yeah that’s it, “news.”

It’s The Naked Loon, and it’s the latest project to come out of the Thatch Mound Labs.

Here’s what some of our beta testers had to say about The Naked Loon:

“Almost Live” meets “The Onion.”
- Chuck

The Naked Loon is better than a kick in the pants! Oh wait, no… no, it’s not.
- Pete

The Naked Loon is the worst website in the world. I beg of you, don’t waste your time!
- J.R.

Libel. The Naked Loon is nothing but vicious, vicious libel. They will be hearing from my lawyers.
- Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels

Okay, I may have made one of those up.

But seriously, I’m pretty pleased with what I’ve created in The Naked Loon, and I think you’re really going to enjoy it. It’s a website you can tell your friends about without starting an argument about equity and home prices and all that rot.

For those of you with dirty, dirty minds, I would like to clarify something. Despite the promise alluded to in the site’s name, everything on The Naked Loon is 100% work-safe, and appropriate for general audiences. However, if you are behind a soulless corporate firewall that blocks sites just for having cool words like “naked” in the URL, we have a solution just for you: The [CENSORED] Loon. It’s the same site, just de-naked-ified.

Everybody loves parody, right? Except for humorless jerks. But really, who cares what they think? So anyway, go check out The Naked Loon. Your life may depend on it!

*(As in, greater than anywhere else.)

P.S. (This is not an April Fool’s joke. The Naked Loon is real, and it is awesome.)

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Welcome to Seattle Bubble

By The Tim on August 8th, 2005 at 9:19 AM · 4 Comments

Welcome, planetoids to the new blog, “Seattle Bubble.” This blog was created to post news stories and generate discussion about the real estate/housing bubble and specifically how it affects the Seattle area. Questions we will explore:

  • Does a real estate/housing bubble exist?
  • If not, why not?
  • If so, why?
  • If so, when/how will it end?
  • etc…

Many other informative blogs and sites exist to discuss the bubble in general or specific to other locales. I highly recommend you educate yourself through the links in the sidebar. To be honest, the main reason I’m starting this blog is to collect information for my own interest, and I just figured that if I’m this interested in the subject, maybe some other people in the area are too. I hope you find this to be a useful resource.

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