In addition to the standard E. Rhodes fluff piece that Synthetik posted about on Sunday, there were a couple other articles posted over the weekend that conveyed a general sense of optimism about Seattle’s housing market in the coming year. Here are a few choice quotes from Mike Benbow’s article in the Everett Herald titled…
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Finished Basements: What Could Go Wrong?
If you have spent some time looking at homes for sale around here, you have probably noticed that finished basements are frequently used as a major selling point, with some listings even counting a finished basement in the advertised total square footage of a home. However, as an article in today’s Seattle P-I points out,…
Always Trust The ‘Experts’
What’s the point about worrying about global warming when we’re getting all this hot air from Elizabeth Rhodes? Please enjoy this year end feel good article about our robust housing market here in Rain City. One of this year’s biggest residential real-estate topics was the anticipated slowdown in sales and appreciation. Would the Puget Sound…
Dance Monkey Dance!
San Francisco has always been a favorite place of mine to visit. I even lived there during a brief time in 1999 when the vacancy rate was less than half a percent! One thing that always struck me about San Francisco was the homeless. Not simply the sheer volume of homeless but the lengths at…
Associated Grocers Cashes In on the Bubble
Associated Grocers is selling a 55-acre plot of land in south Seattle, and apparently the commercial real estate world is all riled up. It’s the biggest slice of Seattle land to come on the market in “recent years,” and it’s coming on the market because the owners want to “cash in on the significant appreciation.”…