By The Tim on December 15, 2009
Here’s another new site to add to your list of where to search for rentals in Seattle: Zillow. Zillow announced yesterday that they have added rental listings to their site. Since this is a brand new feature, and they apparently have not made any partnership deals to pre-seed it with data, there aren’t currently any [...]
Posted in News | Tagged buy-vs-rent, Dupre+Scott, rent, Zillow
By The Tim on December 15, 2008
I was out of town all weekend in SF (driving back yesterday was not particularly fun, I assure you). Here’s a roundup of some of the local and notable national real estate stories that were waiting for me in my inbox upon my return this afternoon: First up, a blog post by P-I real estate [...]
Posted in News | Tagged builders, CBS_News, Cohen, Dupre+Scott, link_roundup, Quadrant, rent, Seattle_PI, Seattle_Times, USA_Today
By The Tim on April 22, 2008
Yesterday’s P-I had a big front-page story from Aubrey Cohen that seems to be at least partly designed to frighten renters and encourage landlords: Rent at an all-time high — if you can find a place “There are a lot of apartments available, but the desirable ones seem to rent very quickly,” said Kilbourne, a [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Cohen, Dupre+Scott, rent, Seattle_PI, vacancy
By deejayoh on January 3, 2008
One of the arguments often discussed with respect to the housing bubble is the fact that the ratio of prices to rents has been fairly consistent on a historical basis, but that this ratio has been blown out in the past few years as home prices have shot up. Indeed, this can be seen in [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged Dupre+Scott, fundamentals, income, price-to-rent
By The Tim on October 2, 2007
I should at least mention the local news reports about the latest Dupre + Scott rental survey. Here’s the meat of the report, courtesy of Aubrey Cohen at the P-I: The King County vacancy rate hit 3.8 percent this month, down from 3.9 percent in March and 4.2 percent in September 2006, according to Dupre [...]
| Tagged Cohen, condos, Dupre+Scott, rent, repartment, Rhodes, Seattle_PI, Seattle_Times
By The Tim on May 1, 2007
Finally some semi-useful information out of Dupre + Scott. Mr. Cohen reports on the “1-19 Unit Report” just released by Dupre + Scott in this terrifying tale of skyrocketing rents and plummeting vacancies: Rental houses get scarce, expensive The good news for people who cannot afford to buy a house in Seattle is that it [...]
| Tagged Cohen, Dupre+Scott, fundamentals, rent, Seattle_PI
