By The Tim on November 27, 2009
Last week we asked the question: How do you find properties that are the best value in today’s market? Following are the highlights of that discussion.
MEDIC focuses on tax assessments and prior sales, using a combination of county records websites (directory here) and Redfin. For MEDIC, “a good price… is at least 40-50% [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged directed_thread, overvalued, undervalued, value
By The Tim on December 4, 2008
A recent report on the housing market across the country from Global Insight and National City contains some interesting bits that are worth noting:
Extreme overvaluation is now essentially nonexistent. … For the country as a whole, the housing market is slightly undervalued.
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Only the Pacific Northwest remains overvalued across a wide region.
Their analysis is based on [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Global Insight, National City, overvalued, Seattle_is_special, undervalued
By The Tim on October 2, 2008
An article in today’s Seattle Times goes nicely with Mr. Cohen’s article in the P-I a couple days ago.
More sellers are growing desperate as homebuying stalls locally
I especially like the first part of the subtitle text (emphasis mine):
The Puget Sound area housing market, supposedly immune to the forces pulling down others across the country, is [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Eskenazi, overvalued, Seattle_is_special, Seattle_Times, sellers
By Eleua on August 21, 2008
Does the drop in home prices we have seen so far make the current real estate market affordable? Do prices that have dropped ten percent represent a great buying opportunity? Long-time Seattle Bubble regular Eleua takes on these questions and more with his “House Valuation Workshop,” using his native Bainbridge Island as a [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged Bainbridge, Eleua, overvalued, valuation
By The Tim on June 3, 2008
P-I Real Estate writer Aubrey Cohen had a nice post on his blog yesterday that pointed me toward a recent report that is worth mentioning here as well.
The report is titled House Prices in America and is published by Global Insight. According to their About page, they provide “comprehensive economic, financial, and political coverage [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged Global Insight, maps, overvalued
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