Seattle Bubble

A while back (September 2006, to be more precise) the Seattle Times published a 22-year “analysis” of King County home prices, which essentially came to the conclusion that Seattle would be immune to the home price drops that were beginning to occur elsewhere around the country. Their graph of local home prices going back [...]

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2007 Revisited
It’s that time of the year again. As the calendar rolls over, the real estate predictions start rolling in. But before we get to the predictions for 2008, let’s look back at 2007.
My own guesses as well as predictions from most of the frequently-quoted local real estate insiders were covered in this [...]

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Here’s a roundup of some local real estate stories that came out this weekend.

The Times and the P-I give Redfin some free advertising by covering their list of Seven Tactics for Selling Your Home.
According to the Times, local builder Quadrant Homes (owned by Weyerhaeuser) is impervious to the housing market slowdown.
From the sounds of Phuong [...]

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For those of you not familiar with Steve Tytler, he is a columnist for the Everett Herald (and also the owner of a mortgage company) who has been pretty much the most reasonable voice in the local media on the housing market. Despite our difference of opinion on just how things will play out, [...]

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A few days ago I received an email from Steve Tytler, a name you may recognize as the occasional real estate columnist for the Everett Herald. Despite the fact that Mr. Tytler owns a local mortgage company, he has been the only voice in the local media to predict that for-sale inventory would increase [...]

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It’s time to clear out all the news alerts in my inbox again. Here’s another round of local real estate links from the past few weeks:

Seattle definitely appears to be “special” in one area: real estate websites. Ms. Rhodes reports on ForeclosurePoint; the latest to join the fray.
Bremerton: up and coming? If [...]

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