There was a good discussion of housing market schadenfreude (or lack thereof) over the holiday weekend in the comments to a recent post. I thought would be worth posting the highlights of the conversation, and chiming in with a few thoughts of my own. rose-colored-ghoulaid: I for one don’t want misfortune to shine on others….
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.
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“New levels of creativity” in listings
Aubrey Cohen comes at us today with a frank and sometimes amusing look at real estate agents’ habit of massaging the English language to attempt to make their listings stand out in an increasingly larger sea of properties for sale. Of special note in today’s article is the copious quoting of local agent Ira Sacharoff,…
“Doom and Gloom” Counterpoint
I’m not one to monopolize the conversation on home prices. In the interest of fairness, I present to you the following counterpoint, which I received in an email today. Can we please stop all of the doom and gloom? As you have probably have seen in the news, the real estate market has been going…
Link Roundup: Condos So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
While I was enjoying a relaxing weekend with my visiting brother-in-law, playing a copious amount of Xbox 360 and Wii games, the local press was going into overdrive with the real estate booster articles. It’s not worth my time or yours to have separate posts for each of them, so here is a link roundup….