Today’s Seattle P-I spotlights a class of people in Seattle that could easily (and I would argue will) grow in numbers if current housing cost trends continue. That would be the working homeless. People that actually put out an honest day’s work each day, only to find they don’t have enough money to afford rent….
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Think niche deals can be found? Think again.
Let’s go over what we’ve learned about the Seattle real estate market. Single family homes: cost increasing, supply decreasing. Condos: cost increasing, supply decreasing. Geographic range of Seattle’s bubble: north to Mount Vernon, south to Olympia. Today we learn that the bubble’s effects stretch even to the obscure niche markets, such as houseboats. “At one…
Even Mount Vernon is Overheated
Even all the way up in the rural tulip town of Mount Vernon they’re feeling the effects of the housing boom, with home prices and population exploding. To hear those in the know talk, Mount Vernon is the “go-to” place in Skagit Valley for homes over the next 15 years. In that time the county…
Doubt Creeping into Some Buyers’ Minds?
More indications that the Seattle area is still red-hot: Compared with median prices for homes and condos sold a year ago at this time, prices were significantly higher throughout the county last month, according to the Northwest Multiple Listing Service’s latest numbers. The number of days that those homes and condos were on the market…
Seattle’s Hot Market Not Limited to Homes
The real estate craze in Seattle apparently isn’t limited to just the housing market. Even downtown buildings are being bought for far more than it seems they should be worth. The thunderstorm of investment in Seattle real estate kept rumbling as a Texas real-estate investment firm paid $23.6 million yesterday for the 12-story First &…