By The Tim on August 11, 2009
Interesting article over on Crosscut today: Why Seattle won’t grow as fast as planners say
If Seattle’s current estimated population is 602,000 and we add the hypothetical 180,000 and you get 782,000 people by 2040 — considerably short of the 1.2 million that some claim are on the way.
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The assumption is that right now, without changing [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Crosscut, growth_management, population, predictions, Seattle, supply
By The Tim on July 26, 2009
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Posted in Polls | Tagged construction, demand, developers, inventory, pent-up supply, Polls, supply
By The Tim on July 13, 2009
One set of data we like to check in on occasionally is the big picture of local housing supply and demand, measured by comparing the total number of housing units to the total number of households. You may recall the last time we checked in on this data back in March: Local Housing Oversupply [...]
Posted in Features, Statistics | Tagged construction, demand, occupancy, OFM, supply
By The Tim on April 9, 2009
Whenever local real estate professionals are quoted in the paper lately, it seems that one line we’ve been hearing repeated a lot is about the alleged loads of “pent-up demand” out there.
The thinking goes that there are hundreds thousands upon thousands of potential buyers out there that are “waiting on the sidelines” or “sitting on [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged demand, pent-up demand, pent-up supply, supply
By The Tim on March 19, 2009
Good news everyone!
The latest population estimates for King County have been released by the Census Bureau, and at the present rate of population growth, we’ll be able to use up all of our excess housing inventory by July of next year…
…if all residential construction across the county completely ceased after July 2008, that is.
Here’s an [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged Census, demand, occupancy, supply
By The Tim on November 5, 2008
There has been some talk lately about the overall housing stock in the Seattle area, and whether construction has been able to keep up with population growth, or if there is a housing shortage that will lead to another housing boom in a few years. So I thought now would be a good time [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged Census, demand, occupancy, supply
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