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We’ve been focusing more on original content here lately, which means that as articles crop up in other local news sources, we haven’t been posting every single one. Of course, there are some interesting things being said about the local housing market in other news sources, so it’s good to touch base with them once…
Over at the P-I earlier this week, Bill Virgin chimed in on the housing mess again with yet another well-reasoned column: Homes are good investments, not slot machines or ATMs. In the great American sport of finger pointing and blame shifting, a new villain has emerged to explain the mortgage-finance crisis. The fault, it turns…
A friend pointed me toward an interesting radio segment that aired on local public radio KUOW today: Should the Federal Government Bailout Banks and Homeowners? You can listen to the full segment at the link above. Here’s a short excerpt from the beginning: https://seattlebubble.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/kuow-government-bailout_2008-03-26.mp3 It seems that most of the people that called in were…
Here’s our monthly look at Seattle’s price tiers from Case-Shiller. I’d like to start by answering a few questions about these tiers that came up last month. First, all Case-Shiller data is based on single-family homes only, no condos or townhomes. Also, the Case-Shiller definition of the “Seattle area” is King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties….