By The Tim on April 19, 2013
Six months after home prices in the Seattle area began declining from their July 2007 peak, the annual report from the NWMLS led to a series of amusingly rosy stories in the local press in early 2008. Here’s a typical example from the Seattle Times: ’07 home prices not so bad after all With all [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged 2008, Friday Flashback
By The Tim on February 15, 2013
Here’s an excerpt from an a Q&A with the then-president of the Thurston County Realtors Association Bill Hutchinson that appeared in The Olympian in February 2008 (now available only behind their archive paywall): Q: Given where the market is today compared with a couple of years ago, what would your advice be for sellers and [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged 2008, Friday Flashback, Hutchinson, Olympia, Thurston
By The Tim on December 21, 2012
Local real estate salesman Mack McCoy, writing on the now-defunct Seattle Real Estate Professionals blog in October 2007: I tease the bubble bloggers! The people on this board have extensive experience in the real estate world, and while there may be differences of opinion among them, the fact is that their opinions deserve to carry [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged 2007, Friday Flashback, McCoy, real_estate_professionals
By The Tim on November 23, 2012
Here’s something I’m thankful for: That nonsense like this drivel written seven years ago by former Seattle Times real estate “reporter” Elizabeth Rhodes turned out to be totally false. Priced out: Home appreciation report This past year’s broad-based price increase is one of the largest the U.S. has seen since at least 1970, economist Stanley [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged 2005, Friday Flashback, Rhodes, Seattle_Times, Stanley Duobinis
By The Tim on November 9, 2012
Here’s a great article that printed in the Seattle P-I in February 2007 (you know, back when they still existed as a printed paper). For those undeterred by the sales flier that warned a 96-year-old Columbia City house is “an extreme fixer, to be entered at your own risk” or by the “hazardous environment” sign [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged 2007, Cohen, Friday Flashback, Seattle_PI
By The Tim on October 12, 2012
As some long-time readers will recall, Larry Cragun is a former Issaquah real estate agent who received a brief mention in a previous Friday Flashback for his characterization of bubble blogs as “the babbling and whining of children.” But he really deserves to have a Friday Flashback all to himself. So that’s what he gets [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged 2006, 2007, Cragun, Friday Flashback, Kendra-Todd
