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Month: October 2009
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2009-10-10
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…
Reporting Roundup Flashback: September 2007
Let’s look back a couple years to see what local real estate agents were saying a few months after the price peak in Seattle, and about a year into the housing decline across most of the rest of the country. Here’s a selection of choice quotes from some October 2007 articles. Note that local home…
Weekend Open Thread (2009-10-09)
Here is your open thread for the weekend beginning Friday October 9th, 2009. You may post random links and off-topic discussions here. Also, if you have an idea or a topic you’d like to see covered in an article, please make it known. Be sure to also check out the forums, and get your word…
$8k Tax Credit: Inefficient, Expensive, Economically Stupid
The intensity of the push from a couple of major national lobbying groups (NAR and NAHB) to extend and/or expand the $8,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit seems to have increased since we last discussed the topic on these pages. With the supposed end of the program coming up in about seven weeks, now seems like…