By The Tim on September 28, 2012
Wow, how could I forget this gem from November 2007? National Association of Realtors “Chief Economist” Lawrence Yun: Seattle a "superstar" market Seattle is becoming a “superstar” market, where housing costs may never settle back into historical relationships to incomes, a national analyst declared on Tuesday. Speaking at the annual conference of the National Association [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged 2007, 2008, Friday Flashback, NAR, Seattle_is_special, Yun
By The Tim on July 22, 2011
A reader emailed me recently to remind me of this amusing document published by the National Association of Realtors in 2006: Home Price Analysis for Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue (pdf). Quoting: With home prices rising strongly in most parts of the country, there has been widespread media coverage on the possibility of a housing market bust. A thorough [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged 2006, Friday Flashback, NAR, Seattle_is_special
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 September 24, 2009
Building on the data that was presented yesterday, here’s a sortable table of some more detailed housing stats for the 25 largest US cities by population. Included below are population, density, median sale price, median price per square foot, median rent, median household income, median list price, and some ratios of sale prices to rents [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged income, price-to-income, price-to-rent, rent, Seattle_is_special, Statistics, top-25
By The Tim on September 23, 2009
Admittedly, yesterday’s post comparing home prices in Seattle to a remote location in Wisconsin really wasn’t fair. Granted, it was posted more for humor than for serious consideration, but there are certainly better comparisons that we could have made. So what would be more fair? How about if we take the top 25 cities in [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged Census, list-price, population, Seattle_is_special, top-25, Zillow
By The Tim on August 16, 2009
Please vote in this poll using the sidebar. This poll will be active and displayed on the sidebar through 08.22.2009.
Posted in Polls | Tagged Polls, Seattle_is_special
