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…
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: 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…
Weekend Open Thread (2009-12-04)
Here is your open thread for the weekend beginning Friday December 4th, 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…