While I was enjoying a relaxing weekend with my visiting brother-in-law, playing a copious amount of Xbox 360 and Wii games, the local press was going into overdrive with the real estate booster articles. It’s not worth my time or yours to have separate posts for each of them, so here is a link roundup….
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“It’s not quite indentured servitude…”
Here’s a quote that caught my attention in today’s headline P-I article: Boeing bosses spy on workers. “It’s not quite indentured servitude, because you can quit, but when you look at the mortgages and car payments, especially in Seattle, you’re not exactly free,” said the surveilled former employee. Real estate salespeople are always talking about…
Housing Slump Drags Down State Revenue
As home sales in the Seattle area (and state-wide) plummet and prices stagnate and begin to decline, it looks like government revenues are following suit: On top of November’s wet weather and the Northwest’s cooling housing market, the state’s top economist had dreary news for state leaders Thursday when he announced that Washington would be…
Lawrence Yun confirms: Seattle is Special
Picked this up from Aubrey Cohen’s blog. Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist for the NAR and well-known real estate seer has confirmed what our local press and real estate folks have know for years: Seattle really is special! It’s about jobs and Microsoft millionaires. Why didn’t we think about that?!?! Seattle a “superstar” market Seattle is…
Can we talk? Full disclosure. What does it mean to you?
I enjoy discussions here because it’s where consumers are. It is like a laboratory of information. One area that is of interest to me, in a large way, is what makes people do what they do. I’m speaking of three groups primarily: consumers and the two primary players in our business, the loan officers and…