Author: The Tim

The New York Times today has an article that asks whether the effects of the hurricane will shorten or extend the housing boom (bubble): Hurricane Katrina destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes, threw at least a million people out of work, disrupted supply lines for businesses and brought misery to untold numbers. Will it also…

Okay, this isn’t related to real estate or housing bubbles, but it is related to the Seattle area, and I thought it was interesting enough to make a quick post about it here. I’ve just uploaded a pamphlet / magazine from 1951 called the Seattle Civil Defense Manual to my personal site. It’s a 25…

It seems that my blog interests at least a few people other than myself. Thanks to the wonders of StatCounter, I have unearthed the blog posts of some other interested locals. These fine individuals are none other than: Jim Miller, who says that my focus is “narrow, but tremendously important, especially in this area.” Timothy…

I’d like to take a few moments to share about the posting frequency here. Due to the very specific nature of the topic that I have chosen to dedicate this blog to, there is actually a rather limited supply of new information available at any given time that is worthy of posting. There are plenty…

Speaking of our local economy, one big question on my mind regarding the potential housing bubble is “how do wages stack up to the rapidly increasing housing costs?” Thanks to the US Census Bureau, I now have an answer, and it doesn’t look good for Seattle. The census report outlined a Seattle-area economy that was…