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.

Kirkland-Based HouseValues Continues Slide

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More bad news for local real estate lead-generation company HouseValues: Amid a slumping real estate market, HouseValues Inc. is cutting 12 percent of its work force and closing its online lead generation business for mortgages. Sixty employees are losing their jobs, all at the company’s Kirkland headquarters.…In a memo to employees, HouseValues Chief Executive Ian…

"This is a great time to buy a home."

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Check out this absolutely delightful paid advertisement masquerading as a “guest editorial” in today’s Seattle Times. It’s penned by Mr. Samuel L. Anderson, the executive officer of the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties. The media have been all abuzz over the past year about the softening in the housing market. … At…

Hello Again, Condo Anecdote

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This is at least worth a brief mention. Another unit has come up for sale in the condo complex in my neighborhood that was the subject of my first anecdotal post. Actually, it’s not “another unit” but rather the same unit that sold just over a year ago. In December 2005 Unit #6 was bought…