Anybody remember the Thornton Place condos at Northgate? Thornton Place’s 109 condos have been on the market since last summer. None has sold, and now the complex is nearly finished. “We were looking at what would get people off the fence,” said Jeff Cook, president and chief operating officer of Stellar Holdings, one of the…
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The Housing Market “Sales Activity Pyramid”
Last week on the Twitter feed I linked to a post that my friend Lennox Scott put up on his blog titled First Time Buyers Are Key To Housing Market Recovery. Here’s a brief excerpt: In my travels around the country everyone wants to know what I think it will take to get the housing…
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2010-11-20
via @SeattleTimes – Downtown buildings' owner misses loan's $154M balloon payment http://bit.ly/aA2dfk # Research I did @Redfin shows that banks have not slowed their pace of listing REOs on the market: http://on.wsj.com/9L6pNT # Am I the only one who finds this headline to be hilarious? "Mortgage rates jump to 4.39%" http://bit.ly/cAHXuc # via @SeattleTimes –…
Real Actual Listing Photos: Kendra Todd Edition
It’s time for another installment of Real Actual Listing Photos. Once a month (or so) I round up some of the most bizarre listing photos from around the Seattle area and post them here, with brief excerpts from the real actual listing description, and probably a bit of snarky commentary. The idea for this series…
A Simple Solution to the Foreclosure Paperwork Mess
This foreclosure documentation mess still seems to be getting a lot of attention. Pundits on television, opinion writers in print, and even the Attorneys General of nearly every state are all riled up about it. Everyone seems to want to “stick it to the man” and make the banks pay for making false claims about…