On Friday the Puget Sound Business Journal posted another great piece by Kirsten Grind on all the shady dealings that went on behind the scenes in the WaMu shutdown ordeal. The piece, titled The Washington Mutual decision is currently available on their site only to subscribers, but over on Portfolio.com (one of their sister sites)…
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 (2009-12-07)
Here is your open thread for Monday December 7th, 2009. 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: Guess the lowest 1-month total closed SFH sales in King Co. for winter ’09-’10
For reference, last winter’s lowest was 661 in February. Here’s a comparison of last winter to where we’ve been so far heading into winter this year: Please vote in this poll using the sidebar. This poll will be active and displayed on the sidebar through 12.12.2009.
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2009-12-05
Seattle Times still pumping house flippers http://is.gd/560WO # More nonsense about keeping people in "their" homes (i.e. the homes they never should have tried to buy in the 1st place) http://is.gd/57XDl # Great commentary on the "real estate non-market" by Rich Toscano in SD equally applicable here in SEA http://is.gd/57ZuN # Visualizing the Fortune 500…
Reporting Roundup: See Market Run. Run Market Run.
Time for the monthly reporting roundup, where I read all the local paper rehashes of the NWMLS press release so you don’t have to. Here’s a link to this month’s NWMLS press release: Move-up buyers, extended/expanded tax credits boost home sales; Northwest MLS brokers expect momentum to continue in 2010 “This winter will not be…