Amusing interchange in the @EverettHerald: Steve Tytler defends his statement of the obvious against an angry homeowner http://t.co/tnpYJ8E2 # RT @glennkelman: Dang. That's Fast. Redfin ships the first major real-time listing alerting system. http://t.co/bXGQ5xAI # "Is now the time to become a landlord?" http://t.co/4Kl0UHIV via @realestatepi # "Amazon lays out design proposals for Denny Triangle…
Month: March 2012
All-Cash Buyers Dominating the Low End of the Market
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. As promised, I posted my all-cash buyer analysis to Redfin’s Seattle blog yesterday: 38% of Sales in King County Were Purchased With Cash in 2011 Here’s the chart from the post, with an added histogram based on your comments here earlier this week. Select which type of…
Weekend Open Thread (2012-03-23)
NOTE: If you are subscribed to Seattle Bubble’s RSS feed and are seeing these open threads in the feed, please switch to our official feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/SeattleBubble Thanks! Here is your open thread for the weekend beginning Friday March 23rd, 2012. You may post random links and off-topic discussions here. Also, if you have an…
Real Actual Listing Photos: Shipwrecked Edition
It’s time for another installment of Real Actual Listing Photos. Once a month (or so) I round up some of the most bizarre listing photos from around the Seattle area and post them here, with brief excerpts from the real actual listing description, and probably a bit of snarky commentary. The idea for this series…
Buyer’s Market? Seller’s Market? Neither, Really.
I had another brief appearance on KING 5 News tonight. Here’s the video: It’s a great time to be a seller… if you can afford to sell at today’s prices. And it’s a great time to be a buyer… if you can be really patient and are willing to tolerate being out-bid numerous times if…