This is your open thread for today. Please post random links and off-topic discussions here. Have a great Labor Day everybody. I’m off to go do some hiking. P.S. (R.I.P., Steve Irwin.)
Month: September 2006
Seattle Times: We Are Immune, So Says History
With all the press that Shiller’s Home Price Index got last week, I suppose it was inevitable that our region’s #1 real estate cheerleader would feel compelled to mount a stirring defense of Seattle’s real estate downturn immunity. Amusingly, Elizabeth Rhodes’ apparent comeback to Mr. Shiller’s frightening graph of home prices since 1890 is to…
"We’re no different in Seattle."
If I didn’t know better, I’d think that someone at the P-I was reading Seattle Bubble. That’s the feeling I get after reading this opinion column by Mark Trahant, titled Age-old, old-age question: Are we unique? (Links added to back up his numbers.) You’ve probably heard something like this before: “Every child is unique and…
Weekend Open Thread
This is your open thread for the weekend. Please post random links and off-topic discussions here.
Seattle’s Housing Barometer: Bubble
To find this story, I went from a post on the P-I RE Professionals blog, to an Inman blog post, to a Google News search, where I finally located a substantial story. I’ll admit that I’ve never heard of John Burns Real Estate Consulting, and considering the relative lack of coverage of their most recent…