Here is your open thread for Monday October 24th, 2011. You may post random links and off-topic discussions here. Also, if you have an idea or a topic you’d like to see covered in an article, please make it known. Be sure to also check out the forums, and get your word in the user-driven…
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: Should the mortgage interest deduction be eliminated?
This poll was active 10.23.2011 through 10.29.2011.
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2011-10-22
Wait, wait wait. I thought we were headed for a terrible shortage? http://t.co/ctM3D2fL "Apartment vacancies rising again" via @realestatepi # RT @PSBJ: 29% of Wash. banks under "severe" enforcement action http://t.co/0kODNMNi # J. Lennox Scott: "Housing is the way out of a recession." Um, no. That & more misguided claims in his latest screed: http://t.co/C1WH8Igk…
Friday Flashback: Condos “providing a ray of sunshine”
Yesterday’s post about Alaska Air’s condo-booster “article” reminded me of this 2007 piece in the Seattle Times: Condos a bright spot in housing market The condo market is healthier than the detached-house market, and prices are holding their own. Those are the key findings from an analysis released Friday of the Seattle-area condominium market by…
Weekend Open Thread (2011-10-21)
Here is your open thread for the weekend beginning Friday October 21st, 2011. You may post random links and off-topic discussions here. Also, if you have an idea or a topic you’d like to see covered in an article, please make it known. Be sure to also check out the forums, and get your word…