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Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2009-10-10

Posted on October 10, 2009 by The Tim
  • via Mish:"We are at greater risk of a total meltdown due to a deflationary collapse than we were in 2007." http://is.gd/3XFvc #
  • Wow, nearly 1 in 5 downtown Seattle offices are sitting empty right now, and vacancy "hasn't peaked." http://is.gd/3YwWH #
  • Time to eliminate gov. subsidies that have turned homeownership into "an economic ball and chain." http://is.gd/3Yyaf #
  • via the Seattle Times: Frontier Financial's acquisition called off http://is.gd/3YSBz #
  • Difficult choice for the $1.25 mil homebuyer. http://is.gd/3ZeQ9 vs http://is.gd/3ZeQT #
  • Surprising honesty from a Georgia Realtor: "Why not make the tax credit it $100k? Expand it to everyone?" http://is.gd/40mEm #
  • Pierce Co. officials apparently have nothing better to do than scour aerial imagery 4 unpermitted decks on private prop. http://is.gd/40mWq #
  • Why aren't landlords & large apartment management firms like Equity Residential lobbying against renewing the $8k credit? http://is.gd/40sx4 #
  • Seattle #19, just above NY in Forbes' latest pointless list: "Where Americans Pay Most to Live" http://is.gd/42Kjm #
  • via KING 5: Newcastle home permit revenue down 90% from "a few years ago" http://is.gd/42KsD #
  • WSJ: w/ a 10.9% drop, Seattle office rents experienced the 6th-largest decline over the last year. http://is.gd/42KHp #
  • Forbes.com lists @raincityguide as RE blog that "focuses tightly on a particular local market." I count 2 of the last 8 posts that are local #
  • Sweet, I just noticed that Google Maps outlines parcel boundaries for Snohomish Co. in the default map view. Not King or Pierce though. #
  • Fed. foreclosure efforts "may simply delay mortgage defaults for many" http://is.gd/46Pri #
  • WA Dept. of Financial Institutions says developer Mike Mastro illegally sold $100 million in unregistered securities http://is.gd/48Qvi #
  • Giant hole at 2nd & Pine to be filled in. http://is.gd/48Sbh #

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