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Back to work Monday has arrived and my normal routine is to find Bill Fleckenstein musings on the financial markets. I’m fairly sure he coined the term “housing ATM,” among other gems, and he’s at it again with this morning’s take on the markets. Perhaps as a sign that folks are starting to care, the…

Here’s a shocker for you: most people in the Seattle area don’t live all that close to where they work. David Wilson lives in Fremont, Dan Griffiths and Mary Anne Lyman in Tacoma. Andrew Chen’s home is in Newcastle, Roxann Harr’s in Auburn, Nancy Andersen’s in Federal Way. They all work for the same insurance…

Craig King of Real Blogging, the official real estate industry blog, says it’s a great time to be buying or selling real estate. “No matter what you’re selling, conventional wisdom is that the FUD Factor (fear, uncertainty and doubt) tends to freeze buyers in their tracks.” He goes on to say that,”If we do a…

Don’t miss Bill Virgin’s latest column in the Seattle P-I today. The subject is the Sonics’ sale, but check out the reference to Seattle real estate that he managed to slip in there: Owning a sports franchise is like buying a Monet painting. The immediate payoff is psychological, not financial; in fact, ownership is likely…

It’s that time of the month again… time for the latest state job statistics, and time for everyone’s favorite cliché, good news / bad news. The good news is more jobs were added in June than in May. The bad news is that job growth is still significantly slower than it was just six months…