Find us on the Best of Western WashingtonSeattle Bubble It’s that time of the year again. If you follow other local news sites and personalities, you may have seen some of them campaigning for votes in KING5’s annual Best of Western Washington, an online contest in which the public votes on “the best” local businesses,…
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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.
Consumer Confidence Dipped in September
This is a couple weeks late, but let’s check in on how Consumer Confidence and mortgage interest rates fared during September. First up, here’s the Consumer Confidence data as of September: The overall Consumer Confidence Index currently sits at 86.0, down 8 percent in a month but up 7 percent from a year ago. At…
More Pending Sales Closed in Q3, One in Five Still MIA
Let’s take a look a the latest data on pending sales volume versus closed sales volume. For this series I roll the pending sales and closed sales data up by quarter, with pending sales offset by one month. In other words, the third quarter numbers below represent pending sales from June, July, and August and…
Seattle Times: Trilogy Lawsuit, Condos, Cabin Battle
The Seattle Times was on a roll this weekend with interesting real estate stories. Here are a few excerpts: Homebuilder faces suit over construction at Trilogy of Redmond Ridge For years, hundreds of Trilogy at Redmond Ridge residents say they have been pleading with California-based Shea Homes, the 55-plus resort community’s developer, to fix and…
Weekly Open Thread (2014-10-13)
NOTE: If you are subscribed to Seattle Bubble’s RSS feed and are seeing these open threads in the feed, please switch to our official feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/SeattleBubble Thanks! Here is your open thread for the week of October 13th, 2014. You may post random links and off-topic discussions here. Also, if you have an idea…