An anonymous reader pointed out the following blurb in an MSN Money “Home Price Report.” Real estate in the Pacific Northwest is still being pumped up by fleeing Californians. Californians (retiring baby boomers in particular) see that their homes have reached record prices and they’ve been selling. They are flooding into neighboring states with pockets…
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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.
Seattle Times Gives Anecdotes Of Their Own
Here’s another one of those stories that follow the basic formula of: take an anecdote, fill in all the back story, write it as dramatically as possible, and stretch it to a full-length article. Today’s topic: finding a nice house for less than $400,000 around Seattle is darn near impossible. It certainly doesn’t qualify as…
Tuesday Open Thread
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Monday Open Thread
This is your open thread for today. Please post random links and off-topic discussions here. Have a great Labor Day everybody. I’m off to go do some hiking. P.S. (R.I.P., Steve Irwin.)
Seattle Times: We Are Immune, So Says History
With all the press that Shiller’s Home Price Index got last week, I suppose it was inevitable that our region’s #1 real estate cheerleader would feel compelled to mount a stirring defense of Seattle’s real estate downturn immunity. Amusingly, Elizabeth Rhodes’ apparent comeback to Mr. Shiller’s frightening graph of home prices since 1890 is to…