At the risk of beating a dead horse, I’d like to continue Friday’s conversation about the re-listed house on Avondale. Thanks to yet another reply by Ms. Reed as well as a series of replies from Ardell, it has finally gotten through my thick skull that “cancel and relist” is different from “let expire and…
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Update: Anecdote: Reloaded
Sarah Reed, the listing agent of the still-unsold $1.275 million-dollar home left a comment on my recent post about her listing. I feel it is only fair to reprint her comment here on the front page so that more people are able to read her defense. So here it is, word for word. Regarding my…
Slowing Condo Market? Not Here! Not Here!
The New York Times yesterday ran a story about the struggling condo market in many parts of the country, and with as much attention as it received, you just knew the local news couldn’t let it go unanswered. Enter Aubrey Cohen of the Seattle P-I with Seattle bucks trend on slumping condos. Seattle’s market was…
What to Blame? Not Growth Management.
Here’s a guest editorial from today’s Seattle Times that says something I’ve been saying all along: The “home prices are high because we’re running out of land because of Growth Management” argument doesn’t hold water. The cost of housing is spiraling out of control in many parts of the Puget Sound region. King County is…
2007 Optimism, Part III: Some Cracks Appear
This is the last post in this impromptu series. There were just so many articles out there full of “expert” quotes and predictions about the Puget Sound’s economic outlook for 2007. Here are three more articles that discuss the interaction of the local housing market with the greater local economic picture. Surprisingly, the housing affordability…