By The Tim on March 19, 2010
For anyone who is interested in listening to some straight audio from yesterday’s PNWHS event and one session from today’s REBarCamp event, I present the pencasts below.
Lennox Scott’s rousing main talk begins on page three of session 2. Float over the number in the lower-right of a pencast to jump between pages, then click [...]
Posted in Local, News | Tagged appraisal, industry insiders, Local Economy, NAR, PNWHS, predictions, Scott, Zillow
By The Tim on March 19, 2010
Rather than editorializing on everything I heard at the Pacific Northwest Housing Summit today, I thought you all might just enjoy some unfiltered quotes from the industry professionals.
Bret Bertolin
Senior Analyst, Washington State Economic and Revenue Forecast Council
On the broad economy…
We believe that the economy has turned the corner, and it pick up steam by mid-year.
On [...]
Posted in Local, News | Tagged appraisal, industry insiders, Local Economy, NAR, PNWHS, predictions, Scott, Zillow
By The Tim on February 10, 2010
Since we frequently pull our home price data from a variety of sources, once in a while I like to bring them all together for a comparison.
Here’s a look at the NWMLS King County SFH median, Radar Logic’s price per square foot, the FHFA purchase-only index, and Case Shiller’s home price index. Each measure [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged Case-Shiller, FHFA, NWMLS, Radar Logic, Statistics, Zillow
By The Tim on December 15, 2009
Here’s another new site to add to your list of where to search for rentals in Seattle: Zillow. Zillow announced yesterday that they have added rental listings to their site.
Since this is a brand new feature, and they apparently have not made any partnership deals to pre-seed it with data, there aren’t currently any [...]
Posted in News | Tagged buy-vs-rent, Dupre+Scott, rent, Zillow
By The Tim on November 18, 2009
Zillow’s latest “Homeowner Confidence” survey came out yesterday, and as usual, provides an interesting look into the psychology of the market.
…in the hardest-hit region of the country, the Western states, homeowners continued to be overly optimistic when evaluating the value of their own homes.
Nationwide, when asked about their own home’s value over the past year:
25% [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged delusion, homeowner confidence, Zillow
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
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