Category: News

Here’s an interesting tidbit from a mostly unrelated article (about getting people out of cars) in today’s Seattle P-I: Last March, Mayor Greg Nickels announced plans to reduce the number of parking spaces housing developers will need to provide in the Capitol Hill, First Hill, Pike-Pine and University District neighborhoods. The city’s Department of Planning…

Well, it seems that even if you’re the seventh-richest man on Earth your money can’t buy you a well-officiated Super Bowl. But can it make a dent in downtown Seattle’s affordability for the working class? Paul Allen’s Vulcan, Inc. intends to at least try. Vulcan Inc. unveiled plans Monday to build affordable housing in South…

Good news everyone! Affordable housing can be found with just a short three hour drive east of Seattle! Grant County sports housing that is truly affordable, in fact the “most affordable” of all the counties listed by NWMLS. Thanks to what a real estate research director calls surprisingly low median home prices, the county tops…

Thanks to the reader that pointed out the story on CNN regarding the recently released statistics on wages. Real wages are not exactly going through the roof. For the 24-month period through the second quarter of 2005, the inflation-adjusted wages of an average American grew just 1 percent or so, according to statistics reported by…

It would be a bit of a stretch to try to relate this directly to a housing bubble, but I found it amusing enough to at least warrant a mention here. It’s a story about a subdivision that was intelligently placed directly underneath a high powered radio antenna. Sumner homeowners living close to a radio…