Rain City Guide, Seattle Real Estate Professionals, and Seattle Bubble all get mentions in Aubrey Cohen’s latest piece for the P-I: Debate over real estate goes online Real estate agent John “Mack” McCoy wasn’t expecting an argument when he started blogging about housing and commenting on other posts and news stories online. “I started out…
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US Government to Responsible Americans: Screw You
Well, that’s that. Housing rescue bill heads to Bush for signature Congress passed the most significant housing legislation in decades Saturday, offering help to struggling homeowners and seeking to stabilize a troubled housing market that has dragged down the economy. President Bush will sign it quickly… … Housing “is a matter of grave concern to…
Here Comes the Big Bailout, Funded by You and Me
The US taxpayer is about to be saddled with hundreds of billions of dollars in bailouts to pay for the idiotic decisions of those that gleefully inflated the housing bubble. At 11:00 AM Eastern TOMORROW (Saturday), the Senate votes on the “housing rescue” bill, which includes: …an unlimited line of credit to Fannie and Freddie,…
Seattle Housing Market vs. National Headlines
One common refrain lately among real estate agents desperate to put a positive spin on the local market is that potential home buyers in the Seattle area are just being frightened by all the bad national news on the housing market. The local market is doing just fine, and would be even better if only…
Local economic news looking like national headlines
There were a couple of stories in the Seattle Times over the weekend pertaining to the health of the local economy. The first was an article on the commercial real estate market, highlighting a forecast for falling rents. Commercial real-estate brokers James Keating and Sean Barnes have one word of advice for their clients looking…