By The Tim on March 16, 2012
I spent some time over the last week working with KUOW’s Deborah Wang on a story about what’s going on right now in Seattle’s real estate market that aired yesterday morning: Seattle Home Buyers Beware: It’s a Seller’s Market Again Here’s the audio: If you’re looking for evidence of a real estate comeback, just check [...]
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By The Tim on February 16, 2011
Before we get to the main topic of today’s post, here’s a brief service announcement. I’ll be on KUOW 94.9 FM again today to discuss the topic of “walking away.” Here’s their promo copy: Is It Ethical To Walk Away From A Mortgage? More than a third of homeowners in the Seattle area now owe [...]
Posted in Audio & Video | Tagged audio, condos, KUOW, Puyallup, radio, Ramsey
By The Tim on November 8, 2010
As I was digging through local real estate stories last week, I was lucky enough to catch the following exchange on KUOW’s “Weekday” program last Thursday. Host Marcie Sillman discusses foreclosures and the Seattle-area housing market with guests Richard Hagar (real estate agent and appraiser) and Linda Taylor (housing director at the Urban League) in [...]
Posted in Local, News | Tagged audio, bottom-calling, foreclosures, Hagar, KUOW, NPR, Seattle_is_special
By The Tim on October 29, 2010
Foreclosure-tracking company RealtyTrac released their third quarter report yesterday, which included a ranking of major metro areas around the country by their respective rates of increase in foreclosure activity compared to the third quarter of 2009. With a 71% year-over-year increase in RealtyTrac’s report, the Seattle area ranked #1 as the metro where foreclosures increased [...]
Posted in Audio & Video, Local, News | Tagged audio, foreclosures, KIRO, KUOW, SB-5810, video
By The Tim on January 4, 2010
I’ll be speaking briefly on the radio today on the 94.9 KUOW show The Conversation With Ross Reynolds with guest host Guy Nelson. The subject is the growing number of foreclosures. Here’s the segment teaser that they sent me: Foreclosures are up in Washington State. What’s your experience with foreclosure in this housing market? You [...]
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By The Tim on October 20, 2009
I received the following request from a KUOW reporter that I thought was worth forwarding on to the general reading audience: Another of our reporters is working on a story on commercial real estate investment. I recognize that your blog follows residential real estate more closely, but I know many of the people reading it [...]
Posted in News | Tagged commercial, investment, KUOW, radio, survey