In order to quantify just how absurd this year’s spring bounce has been, here are a few charts I generated from the single-family home data on Redfin’s region page for King County: Listings continue to drop through the floor. The selection this year really is abysmal. Meanwhile, listing prices are soaring through the roof. They…
Month: May 2012
Real Actual Listing Photos: “Went to the Bathroom!”
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…
Mid-Week Open Thread (2012-05-23)
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 mid-week on May 23rd, 2012. You may post random links and off-topic discussions here. Also, if you have an idea…
Reader-Suggested Economics Blogs
On this week’s poll about people’s favorite economics blog, readers suggested a lot of economics blogs in addition to the five in my poll. There were so many suggestions that I figured they deserve their own post to share them with the full readership. I have personally never read most of these, so consider this…
Knife-Catcher: Year One Recap of Tim’s Home Purchase
With a full year of home ownership/debtorship under my belt as of yesterday, I thought it would be fun to share a few highlights, stats, and thoughts from the first year. First up, the financial highlights: Initial Loan Amount: $179,950 Current Loan Amount: $171,043 Principal Paid: $8,907 Interest Paid: $8,357 Insurance Paid: $596 Property Tax…