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Here are a few real estate related anecdotes I have come across in the last few weeks. I’m not relating them to make any particular point, they’re just all of the real estate happenings that I’ve personally encountered recently. A coworker of mine recently moved from the Northgate area up to Bothell. Commuting across the…

If you live in Seattle and don’t own a home, you probably think that the real estate bubble is nothing but trouble. Well it’s about time that the bubble did something for you. A hot real-estate market is going to help Seattle residents cut their losses as the city shakes off the collapse of the…

The Seattle P-I shares the tale of a local flipper who does more than the buy, sit, flip that has become popular with the real estate explosion. “Buy, fix, flip” actually sounds like an understatement for this guy: The living room of the old Ballard house is redolent with the scent of freshly laid oak…

Here’s a media report on February’s numbers from the Seattle Times, who says that "prices remain buoyant." The housing market around Puget Sound has slowed from its blistering pace of a year ago, meaning some sellers don’t get multiple offers and some have to lower their prices. But prices remain buoyant, with the median sales…

Yet another government-subsidized "affordable housing" project is going up downtown, with the Mayor and other high-rollers attending the big kick-off ceremony last week. Built to help address the city’s shortage of affordable homes, most of the building’s 19 new condominiums will be affordable to households earning less than 80 percent of the area median income….