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Month: October 2006
A California Comparison, Part 2
Yesterday I compared King County to San Diego County in order to address some of the reasons we commonly hear that the Seattle housing market will remain strong. The focus of this post is slightly different than Part 1, where I used San Diego as an example to show that certain positive local attributes will…
“…didn’t buy their ticket on the last spaceship flight off a planet that’s about to explode.”
What a delightfully entertaining gift the Seattle P-I has given us this Friday in the form of guest columnist Sarah McCormic’s amusing thoughts about the Seattle housing market: Several years ago, on a stroll around my Ballard neighborhood, I stopped to gawk at the huge price tag on a For Sale sign in front of…
Friday Open Thread
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WaMu: Housing Slowdown Driving Down Profit
In the past, we have drawn attention on Seattle Bubble to cutbacks or other unpleasant news for local mortgage-related businesses. The reason for this is to draw attention to the fact that the national slowdown in housing is having negative local effects here in the Seattle area. With that in mind, I thought I should…