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.

Poll: A year from now, on-market inventory (King Co. SFH) will be…

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This poll was active 07.29.2012 through 08.04.2012

Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2012-07-28

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In late July, @Zillow says housing's bottom was in February: http://t.co/VQcQI3Fd Tim called the bottom _in_ February: http://t.co/pC57BeFU # Powered by Twitter Tools

Reader Question: Where did all the inventory go?

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I received this question via email from a reader a few weeks ago: I’ve got to ask this because it seems nobody else is asking. We know that just 3-4 years ago there was a surplus of homes on the market. We also know that in the last 3-4 years home sales have remained relatively…

Weekend Open Thread (2012-07-27)

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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 weekend beginning Friday July 27th, 2012. You may post random links and off-topic discussions here. Also, if you have an…

What Features are Real Estate Sites Missing?

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I’ll be in San Francisco today and Friday for Redfin’s semiannual Hackathon, an intense coding marathon where our crack team of software developers come together from Seattle, San Francisco, and Austin to crank out incredible experimental features in mere hours. The basic format has ten teams of four to six developers competing to produce the…