By The Tim on February 12, 2010
[Note: This is an opinion piece on a political matter. If that sort of thing offends you, it is recommended that you skip this post.]
Christine Gregoire, January 2008:
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” Gregoire said, quoting former President Franklin Roosevelt and referring to national recession fears. “It is a very [...]
Posted in Economy, News, Opinion | Tagged Economy, Gregoire, legislation, Local Economy, Olympia, Opinion, politics, tax revenues
By The Tim on October 13, 2009
[Warning: The following commentary is only marginally related to real estate / housing.]
Despite what some of my readers in the real estate industry may think, I’m a generally upbeat, optimistic kind of guy. I like to believe that things will be better tomorrow than they are today; that American ingenuity and hard work can [...]
Posted in Economy | Tagged Economy, Opinion, Shiller
By The Tim on October 7, 2009
We’ve been hearing a lot of speculation recently that goes something along these lines:
There is basically this enormous teeming horde of potential home buyers out there lurking on the sidelines for no good reason. All we need to do is come up with the right concoction of incentives to get these pent-up buyers off [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged demand, Economy, government_meddling, Opinion, pent-up demand, tax credit
By The Tim on August 7, 2009
Congress agreed to pour an additional $2,000,000,000 into the cash credit toward an overpriced new car for clunkers program this week, with various pundits praising the program as a rousing success. Meanwhile, industry professionals point to the $8,000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers as a major factor behind the recent increase in home sales.
One [...]
Posted in Economy | Tagged Economy, government_meddling, Opinion, tax credit
By The Tim on July 27, 2009
I was thinking recently about the claim that we’ve been hearing lately from some sources that Seattle home price declines are over. The primary evidence they seem to provide for this hypothesis seems to be the slight bump in some Seattle-area median prices, and the uptick in sales.
I’m not convinced, but rather than just [...]
Posted in Opinion | Tagged Opinion, predictions
By S-Crow on November 10, 2008
Seattle Bubble scaring away buyers, sellers and refinance consumers?
I’m really not convinced Marlow Harris of Coldwell Banker Bain feels that Seattle Bubble is all about fear mongering and scaring the public away from buying a home. I know she mentioned it, but I don’t believe it. Marlow and many other agents and loan officers [...]
Posted in Opinion | Tagged Opinion, S-Crow
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