By The Tim on October 2, 2009
I linked this up last week on the Twitter account, but the story has been getting enough chit chat online in the last few days that I figure it deserves its own post here.
In news first broken by local REALTOR® Marlow Harris, the NWMLS will apparently be adding two new ways to fine their members [...]
Posted in Opinion | Tagged blogging, NWMLS, real_estate_professionals, rules, Zillow
By The Tim on September 16, 2009
As the expiration date on the first-time homebuyer $8,000 tax credit nears, talk is stirring about renewing and expanding the scheme. Here’s a brief rundown of some of the varying related pieces I’ve been following from around the web.
First up, we’ve got the National Ass. of Realtors pushing hard on their members to “Write [...]
Posted in Opinion | Tagged ActiveRain, Calculated_Risk, government_meddling, NAR, real_estate_professionals, tax credit
By The Tim on August 12, 2009
When I started Seattle Bubble just over four years ago in August 2005, there were many sources for local real estate news—The Seattle Times, The Seattle P-I, Rain City Guide, etc… I started this site not due to a lack of news sources, but due to what I felt was a lack of consumer-oriented [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged Rain City Guide, real_estate_professionals, Seattle_PI, Seattle_Times
By The Tim on December 2, 2008
I thought I’d lump a few “sign of the times” type of stories into a single post, since it gets old after a while constantly reading (and writing) posts that are basically just slight variations on the “the real estate market is slow” theme.
Here’s another interesting piece from Kirsten Grind over at the Puget Sound [...]
Posted in News | Tagged agents, auction, builders, Business Journal, condos, DR Horton, Grind, real_estate_professionals, Seattle_PI
By The Tim on August 3, 2008
Rain City Guide, Seattle Real Estate Professionals, and Seattle Bubble all get mentions in Aubrey Cohen’s latest piece for the P-I: Debate over real estate goes online
Real estate agent John “Mack” McCoy wasn’t expecting an argument when he started blogging about housing and commenting on other posts and news stories online.
“I started out thinking that [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Cohen, Rain City Guide, real_estate_professionals, Seattle_PI
By The Tim on February 20, 2008
If you want to know why people don’t tend to trust real estate agents, here’s a great example from a Q&A with Bill Hutchinson, president of the Thurston County Realtors Association in The Olympian:
Q: Given where the market is today compared with a couple of years ago, what would your advice be for sellers and [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Olympian, propaganda, real_estate_professionals
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