In March I wrote a post calling out people who blame investors for rising rents and unaffordable housing. Today I’d like to highlight some reporting that gets it right. This story by KUOW’s Joshua McNichols is a couple weeks old, but he hits the nail on the head, and I wanted to make sure it…
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Don’t Blame Investors For Unaffordable Housing
An article published this week in Seattle Weekly titled A Letter to the Investor Buying Our Apartment Building pinned the blame for the lack of affordable housing in the Seattle area on investors and their dirty obsession with profits.
…Eve and Charles told us they were putting the property up for sale. Who could blame them? The building is a century old and so much work went into maintaining it, especially for a couple of people who, also, are aging. But it’s prime real estate, right on the water with a view that would make even Donald Trump drool. So we had a good idea of what would happen after the sale went through. Skyrocketing rents and a landlord we’d never see, much less ever know…
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All-Cash Buyers Dominating the Low End of the Market
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. As promised, I posted my all-cash buyer analysis to Redfin’s Seattle blog yesterday: 38% of Sales in King County Were Purchased With Cash in 2011 Here’s the chart from the post, with an added histogram based on your comments here earlier this week. Select which type of…