Category: News

Here it comes… with the housing market in Olympia beginning to experience more signs of a slowdown than anywhere else in the Puget Sound, it’s time to bring out the excuses. The order of the day? Gas prices. Thurston County’s real estate market has been one of the state’s hottest because median prices here are…

We’ve already done the March numbers to death, but the late story from Inman News caught my attention for its amusing headline and subtitle: Northwest real estate sales slide Inventory growth helps lift home prices Home sales in western Washington fell 9.1 percent in March from a year ago, as prices posted another month of…

Here’s a "Reader’s View" editorial from the Seattle Times that I bookmarked a while back and apparently lost in the shuffle. In my small neighborhood, I can point out several recent density actions. You decide if they were for the better or for the worse. On the corner of Norman and Bradner in the Mount…

I would like to take an opportunity to introduce my newest blog, Seattle Traffic. I have "quietly" added a link on the sidebar under "Sibling Sites", but I thought it would be worth mentioning in a post all its own. Seattle Traffic is an idea that I had been tossing around for a few months…

Ever since I started (so long ago, I know) this blog I’ve been wondering—what does it take to get “mainstream” reporters in Seattle to sit up and realize that housing has gotten out of control around here? Well it looks like I finally got my answer. For Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat, it takes a…