By The Tim on July 28, 2011
A handful of non-number-based stories about foreclosures have popped up lately that I thought might be interesting to highlight here for discussion. First up, Diana Olick with CNBC: Vacant Homes Will Drown Housing Recovery A real estate source I knew recently told me about a guy he knows in Atlanta who has been hired by [...]
Posted in National, News | Tagged banks, CNBC, foreclosures, Indiviglio, Olick, Rasmussen, shadow_inventory, survey, The Atlantic
By The Tim on March 25, 2010
Here are a couple of videos for you today. First up, Zillow Chief Economist Stan Humphries on Yahoo News: Here’s the money quote: We think that the amount of pent-up supply that we have of people on the sidelines, combined with the amount of foreclosures that we have, combined with the current negative equity rates [...]
Posted in Audio & Video, Local, National, News | Tagged CNBC, Cohen, condos, Humphries, pent-up supply, Yahoo, Zillow
By The Tim on February 13, 2009
Got a bunch of things to share with everybody that have built up over the past week, so let’s just get right into it. First up, a couple of stories that take a look at the big picture local numbers… Aubrey Cohen, Seattle P-I: Washington sees nation’s largest drop in sales Patricia Murphy, KUOW: Bad [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Boone, CNBC, Cohen, foreclosures, KUOW, NPR, Olympian, Seattle_PI, WCRER
By The Tim on May 11, 2007
Here’s yet another boilerplate national real estate article rah-rah’ing Seattle’s apparent resilience: Amid all the news of plummeting national housing numbers, the premise still holds true that all real estate is local, and nothing supports that premise more than the statistics on local home price appreciation. The ka-ching from a house in Seattle rings just [...]
| Tagged CNBC, puff_piece