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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.
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2013-01-11
Top 10 Most Expensive King County Home Sales of 2012 – http://t.co/JPtZXBvJ via @urbnlivn -> "Court allows high-rise condos at Point Wells" Now, whether anyone would BUY luxury condos there… http://t.co/fyaiWuvk via @EverettHerald -> "Rockefeller Group plans to build offices in downtown Bellevue" (three office towers, 2.4M sqft) http://t.co/R9ql6oBs via @SeattleTimes -> What will they…
$75K Home Was Mortgaged for Nearly Half a Million in 2007
I like to keep tabs on what’s going on in my neighborhood, and when a little house a block away was listed for rent on Craigslist (screenshot) this week, I remembered seeing it as a foreclosure on the market for sale last year. I got a little curious to know some more about this home’s…
Weekend Open Thread (2013-01-11)
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 January 11th, 2013. You may post random links and off-topic discussions here. Also, if you have an…
Near-Record Affordability Still Driven by Low Rates
It has been a while since we had a look at the local affordability index, and now that we’ve got all of the data for 2012, it seemed like a good time to take another look. As a reminder, the affordability index is based on three factors: median single-family home price as reported by the…