Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. Last Thursday Redfin released their February market data. Here’s an excerpt from the narrative (which I also wrote): Welcome to Real Estate Bizarro World, where falling supply means falling prices and scarce demand still leads to multiple offer situations. 2011 continues to shape up as an unusual…
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.
Monday Open Thread (2011-03-14)
Here is your open thread for Monday March 14th, 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…
Poll: How much would you put down if you bought a home today?
This poll was active 03.13.2011 through 03.19.2011.
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2011-03-12
Interesting comments from @urbnlivn readers re: the Gallery non-auction this weekend: http://is.gd/AtMGh2 # .@MattGoyer's staff writer on @urbnlivn is a bit cliché in today's post: "renting is a losing investment…" http://is.gd/QEaKeA # Tom Kelly keeps talking. http://is.gd/FkKGAk maybe if he keeps talking everyone will forget what he said before. http://is.gd/leLUqm # This is a headline…
Bottom-Calling Checkup: Nope, Still No Bottom Sighted.
Let’s take some time to do another checkup on our February 2009 bottom-calling series. In our last checkup back in October we hadn’t found a bottom yet. Let’s see if we’re there yet. First up let’s have a look at an updated version of the “Blind Optimism” forecast chart: Oops. So much for blind optimism….