I thought it might be interesting to dig into a real life example of just how much money a bubble-believing home buyer would have lost by purchasing a home during the insanity of the housing bubble in Seattle. What better example to use than our favorite Ballard home that just sold? Wherever possible I’ll be…
Tag: buy-vs-rent
Weekend Reads from Across the Spectrum
Here are a few recent articles of interest that I thought might be worth discussion. Calculated Risk: The upward slope of Real House Prices I don’t think we have to choose between real prices and price-to-rent graphs to ask “how far out of line are house prices?” I think they are both showing that prices…
Friday Flashback: “Laughing Laughing Laughing”
Long-time readers of Seattle Bubble may recall that while I generally avoid engaging in blatant schadenfreude, I do make one specific exception. That special case is for a commenter that used to be quite prolific on these pages, leaving over 800 comments between November 2005 and August 2007. Dozens of those comments were on the…
Hey Let’s Ask the Internet for Neighborhood Advice!
View this map in its own window Last week I had another guest post at Get Rich Slowly on the subject of why you should rent first when you move to a new city. I’m not going to repeat everything I said over there, but I did want to share the map at right. What…
Poll: Renters Only: Why haven’t you bought a house?
This poll was active 08.22.2010 through 08.28.2010.