If you’ve been searching for homes in the Seattle area for longer than about a week, you’ve probably had an experience like this: After searching your favorite listings website for homes between 1,500 and 2,000 square feet, you find a decent-looking 1,800 square foot home that looks like a good candidate in your price range….
Category: Features
Real Actual Listing Photos: Fun-House 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…
Bottom-Calling Checkup: False Bottom Psych-Out
I received a reader request via email a few days ago for an update on the Radar Logic dollars per square foot home price bottom chart from our February 2009 bottom-calling series. In our last checkup back in March, prices were still falling, and had almost reached the “bottom” from the February 2009 forecast of…
Hey Let’s Ask the Internet for Neighborhood Advice!
View this map in its own window Last week I had another guest post at Get Rich Slowly on the subject of why you should rent first when you move to a new city. I’m not going to repeat everything I said over there, but I did want to share the map at right. What…
Friday Flashback: “Seattle isn’t like other cities.”
Time for another Friday Flashback! Today’s flashback comes at you from February 2007, as the Seattle Times declared 2007 to be “The year of the condo in downtown Seattle” (emphasis mine). [Condo developer David] Thyer insists that Seattle isn’t like other cities, where developers are struggling with an oversupply of new condos. There’s a demand…