Granted, this is pretty much old news by now, but the issue of the disappearing condo views is at least worth mentioning. Benjamin Shanfelder signed up to buy a condominium on the west side of downtown Seattle’s Cosmopolitan building in 2005 because it was one of the first new downtown high-rises and was convenient to…
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Seattle Townhouse Market Tanking?
There was a great article over the weekend in the Seattle P-I that looked at the townhouse market, which has slowed down considerably more than the single-family or condo markets so far this year. Jamie Goodwin knew it would be a tough time to sell her Central Area townhouse. “I’m a real estate attorney, and…
“New levels of creativity” in listings
Aubrey Cohen comes at us today with a frank and sometimes amusing look at real estate agents’ habit of massaging the English language to attempt to make their listings stand out in an increasingly larger sea of properties for sale. Of special note in today’s article is the copious quoting of local agent Ira Sacharoff,…
Link Roundup: Condos So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
While I was enjoying a relaxing weekend with my visiting brother-in-law, playing a copious amount of Xbox 360 and Wii games, the local press was going into overdrive with the real estate booster articles. It’s not worth my time or yours to have separate posts for each of them, so here is a link roundup….
October Reporting Roundup: There Goes the Neighborhood
If you thought last month’s reporting was fun, just wait till you get a load of the goomy tone of the latest wave of articles. I find it interesting that the NWMLS chose to release the statistics so late in the day yesterday, on the fourth business day of the month (rather than the fifth,…