Author: The Tim

Tim Ellis is the founder of Seattle Bubble. His background in engineering and computer / internet technology, a fondness of data-based analysis of problems, and an addiction to spreadsheets all influence his perspective on the Seattle-area real estate market. Tim also hosts the weekly improv comedy sci-fi podcast Dispatches from the Multiverse.

April Stats Preview: Improving Inventory Edition

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With the books on April now closed, let’s have a look at our monthly stats preview. Most of the charts below are based on broad county-wide data that is available through a simple search of King County and Snohomish County public records. If you have additional stats you’d like to see in the preview, drop…

Weekly Open Thread (2014-05-05)

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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 week of May 5th, 2014. You may post random links and off-topic discussions here. Also, if you have an idea…

Alternative Brokerage Spotlight: Locality

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Read the series intro: Alternative Brokerages Flourishing Around Seattle The final spotlight in our in-depth series on alternative brokerages around Seattle is on Locality. Locality was just launched earlier this year by Redfin veteran Trevor Smith. I worked with Trevor while we were both at Redfin, and can personally attest to his skill and professionalism….

Surefield

Alternative Brokerage Spotlight: Surefield

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Read the series intro: Alternative Brokerages Flourishing Around Seattle Next up in the in-depth series on alternative brokerages around Seattle is Surefield. Surefield just launched this week, started by Redfin founder David Eraker, Redfin veteran Rob McGarty, and Nvidea tech wizard Aravind Kalaiah. I worked with Rob during my time at Redfin, and he gave…