In yesterday’s post I took local real estate agent, appraiser, and real estate educator Richard Hagar to task for some misleading statements he made during a live appearance on KUOW last week. Specifically, I called out his claim that Washington State is currently experiencing net migration of 125,000 people per year. Mr. Hagar dropped by…
Category: Features
Reader Question: Break the Lease, or Find a New Renter?
A reader asked a somewhat offbeat question a couple weeks ago that I think merits some futher discussion. My husband and I are leaving the state for work in the midwest. In April we moved into a underpriced rental house and signed a lease until June 2011 thinking that if we leave the owner would…
Cheapest Homes: November 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…
Puget Sound Housing Market Entered Deep Freeze in Q3
The latest issue of Sound Housing Quarterly has been published (Q3 2010). Sound Housing Quarterly is a subscription-based sister project to Seattle Bubble that I created to provide a single consolidated and consistent source of high-level local housing market stats and analysis. This month’s report is 48 pages long, and took me the better part…
Reader Question: Today’s Best Rental Strategies
A reader asked this question about strategies for today’s rental market: Alright experts, I was going to buy a house this fall/winter but after following this blog for a few weeks have decided to wait it out. Here’s my question: Given the current situation, what is your prediction for the rental market, specifically houses, in…