By The Tim on October 7, 2009
We’ve been hearing a lot of speculation recently that goes something along these lines:
There is basically this enormous teeming horde of potential home buyers out there lurking on the sidelines for no good reason. All we need to do is come up with the right concoction of incentives to get these pent-up buyers off [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged demand, Economy, government_meddling, Opinion, pent-up demand, tax credit
By The Tim on July 26, 2009
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Posted in Polls | Tagged construction, demand, developers, inventory, pent-up supply, Polls, supply
By The Tim on July 13, 2009
One set of data we like to check in on occasionally is the big picture of local housing supply and demand, measured by comparing the total number of housing units to the total number of households. You may recall the last time we checked in on this data back in March: Local Housing Oversupply [...]
Posted in Features, Statistics | Tagged construction, demand, occupancy, OFM, supply
By The Tim on April 9, 2009
Whenever local real estate professionals are quoted in the paper lately, it seems that one line we’ve been hearing repeated a lot is about the alleged loads of “pent-up demand” out there.
The thinking goes that there are hundreds thousands upon thousands of potential buyers out there that are “waiting on the sidelines” or “sitting on [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged demand, pent-up demand, pent-up supply, supply
By The Tim on March 19, 2009
Good news everyone!
The latest population estimates for King County have been released by the Census Bureau, and at the present rate of population growth, we’ll be able to use up all of our excess housing inventory by July of next year…
…if all residential construction across the county completely ceased after July 2008, that is.
Here’s an [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged Census, demand, occupancy, supply
By The Tim on January 5, 2009
Some of you may recall back in February last year, when the Seattle Times ran a story about UW professor Theo Eicher’s land use regulations study, with the headline declaring “Rules add $200,000 to Seattle house price.”
Here at Seattle Bubble we had serious questions about the dramatic conclusion in that study, and the methods that [...]
Posted in News | Tagged demand, economics, fundamentals, growth_management, regulation
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