It would appear that our old friend Bill Virgin (formerly of the print P-I), is now writing a weekly column for the Tacoma News Tribune. Here are a few excerpts from his latest piece regarding what we may expect to see in store for the local economy in 2010: 2010 recovery will hinge on confidence…
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Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2010-01-23
Seattle's @jillayne picked up by @calculatedrisk – FCIC Interviewing the Wrong People http://is.gd/6oO2e # Consumer bankruptcy filings up nearly 50% in western WA in 2009. http://is.gd/6p0om # Jon Talton @SeattleTimes opines on the Horizon Bank failure – http://is.gd/6qCa2 # FYI: Seattle Bubble will be down today for a few hours for hardware maintenance. # …and…
State’s Chief Economist: Real Estate to Rebound… in 2011
Washington State’s Chief Economist Arun Raha has been speaking this week about his expectations for Washington’s economy in 2010 and beyond, including his outlook for the local real estate market. Raha said the nation’s big banks are in better shape and are mostly back to normal in terms of lending money to customers with good…
Million Dollar Decision Making
In the spirit of this 2007 post… let’s say you have a million bucks that you’re going to use to buy some real estate… Option 1: A 3,150 square foot “beautiful, well maintained Craftsman” sporting an “open floor plan with designer touches,” located on a 4,584 sq. ft. (0.1 acre) lot in the idyllic 47th…
Renegotiating and Walking Back to Olive8
I posted this to the Twitter news wire yesterday, but since the original story merited a full blog post back in May (Walking Away at Olive8), I thought that Andy’s thoughtful follow-up would be worth posting as well. As it turns out, local internet entrepreneur Andy Liu didn’t end up walking away from Olive8 after…