"Experts see rebound in home prices by 2013" Same "experts" who said home prices would never fall in the 1st place? http://t.co/iJTk3LXf # Seattle Apartment Bubble? "Building boom for Seattle apartments may be overdone" http://t.co/5138l8WJ via @seattletimes # "Falling Seattle home prices may be cutting into rental demand" http://t.co/Gd4gSZhC via @PSBJ # "Housing bust proves…
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Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2011-12-24
Claim: National builders opening shop in Seattle a sign of imminent local market rebound. http://t.co/10Y1WnN7 via @WSJ # Another $700 billion in imaginary home "value" was "lost" in 2011, according to @Zillow: http://t.co/zFfZnHSq # RT @westseattleblog: Sold, for $11.4 million! Conner site in The Junction: http://t.co/NIhuA7z3 # Powered by Twitter Tools
Big Freaking Surprise: NAR Overstated Home Sales
Okay, since this subject has been brought up in nearly every open thread over the past two weeks, I’m going to post about it here so we can just get it out of our system. Big freaking surprise: Realtors Lower 2007-2010 Home-Sales Estimates by 14% U.S. home sales from 2007 through 2010 were about 14%…
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2011-12-17
Such specificity! "Apartment vacancies expected to fall, then rise" http://t.co/1IFk7l1I # "WaMu's former leaders reportedly settle FDIC suit" http://t.co/VQtd1k4Z via @seattletimes # RT @jontalton: WaMu getting away with it http://t.co/GhkoTSle # From a reader: Bubble houses! http://t.co/7Y6XsnvA (Not the type of bubble we typically talk about.) # WaMu / Russell Investments Center up for sale…
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2011-12-10
"Developers revive long-stalled apartment projects" http://t.co/V8HMoOpC via @realestatepi # Devious! "Banks trying to make buyers pay excise tax on bank-owned (REO) properties" http://t.co/jMEp2CSm via @findwell # "How Occupy's anti-foreclosure drive could sink the movement" http://t.co/oF8BKKx3 via @CSMonitor # Is it just me or does the proposed "Stadium Place" apartment tower (http://t.co/Gn0Byj7m) remind vaguely of http://t.co/0NZY7lkZ…