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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.

Around the Sound: Prices Slip in Thurston & Kitsap

Posted on February 21, 2014February 21, 2014 by The Tim

It’s time for us to check up on stats outside of the King/Snohomish core with our “Around the Sound” statistics for Pierce, Kitsap, Thurston, Island, Skagit, and Whatcom counties. If there is certain data you would like to see or ways you would like to see the data presented differently, drop a comment below and…

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Affordable Home Price on Par with Median Price

Posted on February 18, 2014February 17, 2014 by The Tim

As promised in yesterday’s affordability post, here’s an updated look at the “affordable home” price chart. In this graph I flip the variables in the affordability index calculation around to other sides of the equation to calculate what price home the a family earning the median household income could afford to buy at today’s mortgage…

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Affordability: Price Declines Offset by Increasing Rates

Posted on February 17, 2014February 17, 2014 by The Tim

Let’s take a look at how affordability is doing in the Seattle area after the last couple months of changes in home prices and interest rates. So how does affordability look as of January? Roughly the same place it’s been bouncing around since last June. The index inched back up to 103.6 from 100.8 in…

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Weekly Open Thread (2014-02-17)

Posted on February 17, 2014February 16, 2014 by The Tim

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 February 17th, 2014. You may post random links and off-topic discussions here. Also, if you have an idea…

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Poll: Do you personally know someone that has bought Seattle-area real estate in the last three years as an “investment”?

Posted on February 16, 2014February 23, 2014 by The Tim

This poll was active 02.16.2014 through 02.22.2014

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