via @BoingBoing: Broke-ass WA set to give MSFT $100M annual tax cut and amnesty for $1B in evasion http://is.gd/8qOi3 # A look at how gov. programs are distorting the housing market from @nytimes http://is.gd/8sOaW # via @SeattleTimes: San Juan Islands feel the chill of falling prices http://is.gd/8w86q # Building permits up in 2009 in Olympia…
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.
January Seasonally-Adjusted Active Supply by Neighborhood
Let’s check in on our January monthly neighborhood update to the neighborhood breakdown of Seasonally-Adjusted Active Supply (SAAS). For an explanation of what seasonally-adjusted active supply is, please refer to this post. Also, you may view a map of the areas discussed in this post. As usual, courtesy Tableau Software (available free to use online),…
Weekend Open Thread (2010-02-19)
Here is your open thread for the weekend beginning Friday February 19th, 2010. 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…
King 5: Alki “The Bermuda Triangle of Real Estate”
Just aired tonight on KING 5 News: Alki littered with for-sale and for-rent signs Excerpting from the online story text: Realtor Sandra VanderVen shows us a condo off Alki beach that has been on the market for a year and a half. “It almost seems like you could put a free sign out!” VanderVen jokes…
Comparing January Sales Rates Across Western WA
Let’s take a slightly geographically broader look at home sales than we usually restrict ourselves to. In the Tableau viz below, you’re looking at all the NWMLS data on the number of closed single-family sales in Western Washington for every January since 2000. The “heat” number is simply the number of closed SFH sales divided…