I realized we have beat the subject to death with a pair of posts and this week’s poll, but I had to at least point out a Rhodes piece in today’s Seattle Times on the issue of gas prices and home buying patterns: Will gas prices drive homebuyers away from suburbs? The article starts off…
Month: July 2008
Poll: Would you consider buying a home closer-in due solely to today’s higher gas prices?
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Independence Day Open Thread
Happy Independence Day, everybody. Here’s an open thread. Feel free to discuss whatever you want.
Housing Bust Slowing Population Growth
Aubrey Cohen reports on some interesting population growth data just released by the state Office of Financial Management. …difficulty selling homes elsewhere has slowed population growth here over the past year, according to new estimates from the state Office of Financial Management. Seattle and King County grew 1.1 percent and 1.2 percent, respectively, between April…
What’s Your Housing Bust Strategy?
One of the topics we touched on during yesterday’s Rain City Radio conversation was when and how to catch the bottom of falling house prices. I’m not personally obsessed with catching the very bottom, but I also am not interested in buying something less than ideal that I can barely afford based solely on a…