By The Tim on December 22, 2008
Here are a few local real estate stories to kick off this snowy Christmas week.
Aubrey Cohen, Seattle P-I: It’s refi — not buy — in Seattle’s housing market
Unusually low interest rates have spurred a run of mortgage refinancings in the Seattle area, but not necessarily more home purchases.
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Andrew Gledhill, an associate economist at Moody’s Economy.com, [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Boone, Cohen, Everett_Herald, foreclosures, Moody's, Olympian, predictions, rent, Seattle_PI, Tytler
By The Tim on September 30, 2008
The P-I ran an interesting little article by Aubrey Cohen today: Turmoil rattles local real estate market
The recent nationwide economic turmoil appears to have intensified already prevalent skittishness among buyers and lenders — and helped persuade sellers to get real.
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The turmoil has increased the fear of buying now, only to see prices fall even more [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Cohen, Moody's, predictions, Seattle_PI
By The Tim on November 5, 2007
Over at the Baltimore Housing Bubble blog, site contributor Kevin has an interesting post up about a recent article in Fortune Magazine.
This months edition of Fortune Magazine (November 12, 2007) had a great article on housing called How Low Can They Go? by Shawn Tully (no online link available yet, but I’ll modify post once [...]
| Tagged Fortune, Moody's, predictions, price-to-rent
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