It’s time once again for the monthly reporting roundup, where you can read my wry commentary about the news instead of subjecting yourself to boring rehashes of the NWMLS press release (or in addition to, if that’s what floats your boat). First up, let’s have a look at the source material from the NWMLS itself….
Category: News
News, current events, etc.
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2011-04-30
The @SeattleTimes tries to explain why property taxes go up when home values decline. http://is.gd/Do1WYn # Extreme housing affordability: Living in a rowboat under the 520 bridge. http://is.gd/Ik35Rk on @SeattleTimes via @CurbedSeattle # via @SeattleTimes – "Mastro agrees to $7.1 million judgment" http://is.gd/ysW25c # Nice homes selling fast does not necessarily mean "the market is…
Claim: Seattle Real Estate Market Suddenly Heating Up
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. Wednesday afternoon, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman posted an interesting story on Redfin’s Seattle blog: "Everything Changed in the Past Six Weeks" Bryon Ziegler, part of Redfin’s crack Capitol Hill team, just wandered into my office to talk about bidding wars. The last ten straight offers he has…
There is no such thing as “a great time to buy.”
With home prices off a third or more around Seattle from their hyper-inflated housing bubble levels, interest rates still hovering in the sub-five-percent range, and numerous economic fundamentals indicating a market more balanced than it has been in nearly a decade, has the perennial claim of home salesmen come true? Is now, finally, “a great…
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2011-04-23
Our guess the price contest house was de-listed 12 days ago, but was just re-listed again yesterday at the same price. http://is.gd/onKJAr # RT @GeekWireNews: Zillow.com beats Trulia to the punch, files to go public http://goo.gl/fb/wQPnf # According to the Irish Independent, Seattle's housing market has already recovered! http://is.gd/1QrDSg I guess I missed it… #…