Let’s look back a couple years to see what local real estate agents were saying a few months after the price peak in Seattle, and about a year into the housing decline across most of the rest of the country. Here’s a selection of choice quotes from some October 2007 articles. Note that local home…
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September Reporting Roundup: Get your SURGE RALLY on!
Time for the monthly reporting roundup, where I read all the local paper rehashes of the NWMLS press release so you don’t have to. First up, an excerpt from the NWMLS press release itself: Northwest MLS brokers agree "there’s a lot to be optimistic about" “There’s a lot to be optimistic about,” according to one…
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2009-10-03
RT @mattgoyer: New blog post: Brix Auction Results: $344-$500/Sq. Ft. http://bit.ly/twuKP # Seattle Times on Mastro Bankruptcy: Hundreds of local investors lose big as real-estate magnate falls http://is.gd/3Jz2L # Zillow + Windermere = BFF http://is.gd/3Lb97 # Interesting take on some possible unintended consequences of the $8k homebuyer tax credit: http://is.gd/3LRvd # Only 2 of 20…
Can the NWMLS Control Online Conversations About Listings?
I linked this up last week on the Twitter account, but the story has been getting enough chit chat online in the last few days that I figure it deserves its own post here. In news first broken by local REALTOR® Marlow Harris, the NWMLS will apparently be adding two new ways to fine their…
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2009-09-26
Oooh, dramatic: "Collapse still haunts former WaMu workers." http://is.gd/3vFIp # Analysts are worried that Americans aren't spending "the way they did before the crash." Personally, I'm relieved. http://is.gd/3zplN # I think the Seattle Bubble office needs this poster http://despair.com/economics.html # Recession over, or merely the eye of the hurricane? http://is.gd/3Di97 # NewsFlash: Homebuyers want to…