By The Tim on May 19, 2011
I had the privilege last night of moderating a panel discussion about local and national real estate for the Seattle Alternative Investment Association (SAIA). The panel consisted of: Stan Humphries, Zillow Chief Economist Tim Terrill, Chief Operating Officer of Walton Development and Management Karen Weaver, Head of Market Strategy and Research at Seer Capital The [...]
Posted in Local, News | Tagged Humphries, predictions, SAIA, Terrill, Weaver
By The Tim on February 14, 2011
It’s not often we get a major national news piece focused solely on Seattle’s real estate market, but yesterday we got just that from the New York Times: Housing Crash Is Hitting Cities Thought to Be Stable SEATTLE — Few believed the housing market here would ever collapse. Now they wonder if it will ever [...]
Posted in Local, National, News | Tagged Humphries, Kelman, New York Times, Seattle_Times, Wall_Street_Journal
By The Tim on February 2, 2011
With 2010 well behind us now, it’s past time for another roundup of yearly Seattle real estate market predictions. Here are our past prediction posts for 2007, 2008, 2009, & 2010. Rather than playing the usual game of scraping and searching through the local papers for notable prognosticators going on the record with someone else [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged Crellin, Humphries, Kelman, Polls, predictions, Redfin, Tytler, WCRER, Zillow
By The Tim on August 25, 2010
I recorded an interview with KIRO news radio yesterday that might be of some interest. The days of buying a house for profit may be gone An excerpt: If you’re looking for an investment, consider stocks and bonds, coins or comic books. The days of buying a house for big profit might be gone forever. [...]
Posted in Audio & Video | Tagged audio, Haeck, Humphries, investment, KIRO, NPR, radio, Zillow
By The Tim on June 15, 2010
CNN Money asks: Is a housing shortage coming? (Short answer: No.) As the nation struggles to shrug off the worst housing crash since the Great Depression, it may be hard to believe a housing shortage could be on its way. The nation is simply not building enough homes to keep up with potential demand. Just [...]
Posted in Local, News | Tagged CNNMoney, construction, Humphries, recession, supply, tax credit, Zillow
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
