I recently received the following question from a reader: Do you recommend doing flips in the Seattle metropolitan area? I did a flip in the San Francisco Bay Area (where I’m from) and made $59K profit. I’m thinking Seattle may also be a good market as well given Boeing and Microsoft as main employers attracting…
Category: Features
Cheapest Homes: October 2012 Edition
Let’s check in again on the cheapest homes around Seattle proper. Here’s our methodology: I search the listings for the cheapest homes currently on the market, excluding short sales, in the city of Seattle proper. Any properties that are in obvious states of extreme disrepair based on listing photos and descriptions will be excluded. This…
September 2012 Seattle Bubble Recap
Time for another monthly recap, where we wrap up the month and highlight the major posts of the month that just ended in a single place. The purpose of this series is to get a feel for how a month went, and catch up if you missed something. Let me know what you think of…
Friday Flashback: Lawrence Yun: “Seattle is Underpriced”
Wow, how could I forget this gem from November 2007? National Association of Realtors “Chief Economist” Lawrence Yun: Seattle a "superstar" market Seattle is becoming a “superstar” market, where housing costs may never settle back into historical relationships to incomes, a national analyst declared on Tuesday. Speaking at the annual conference of the National Association…
Real Actual Listing Photos: Eagle Eye Edition
It’s time for another installment of Real Actual Listing Photos. Once a month (or so) I round up some of the most bizarre listing photos from around the Seattle area and post them here, with brief excerpts from the real actual listing description, and probably a bit of snarky commentary. The idea for this series…