Last week on the Twitter feed I linked to a post that my friend Lennox Scott put up on his blog titled First Time Buyers Are Key To Housing Market Recovery. Here’s a brief excerpt: In my travels around the country everyone wants to know what I think it will take to get the housing…
Year: 2010
Monday Open Thread (2010-11-22)
Here is your open thread for Monday November 22nd, 2010. 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 in the user-driven…
Poll: Homebuyers: How long have you been looking for a home to buy?
This poll was active 11.21.2010 through 11.27.2010.
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2010-11-20
via @SeattleTimes – Downtown buildings' owner misses loan's $154M balloon payment http://bit.ly/aA2dfk # Research I did @Redfin shows that banks have not slowed their pace of listing REOs on the market: http://on.wsj.com/9L6pNT # Am I the only one who finds this headline to be hilarious? "Mortgage rates jump to 4.39%" http://bit.ly/cAHXuc # via @SeattleTimes –…
Friday Flashback: “Four offers instead of six”
Here are a few excerpts from an amusing series of radio reports that aired on KIRO in August 2005, the same month I started Seattle Bubble. Conway: “We’re growing twice as fast as the nation, and that-that will certainly act as a buffer. If we-if we do see a downturn in the housing market, it…