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Here’s a gem in a KOMO article from July 2008: "Open House" — sign of the times in Snohomish County Real estate agents in Snohomish County are now resorting to a “shock treatment” for slouching home sales in their area. Realtors advertised more than 400 open houses over the weekend. Agents say they hope playing…
As promised in last night’s affordability post, here’s an updated look at the “affordable home” price chart. In this graph I flip the variables in the affordability index calculation around to other sides of the equation to calculate what price home the a family earning the median household income could afford to buy at today’s…
Let’s take a look at how affordability is doing in the Seattle area after the last couple months of changes in home prices and interest rates. So how does affordability look as of September? Slightly better. The index inched back above 100 (i.e. the median-priced home is affordable to a median-income household) thanks to the…
It’s time for us to check up on stats outside of the King/Snohomish core with our “Around the Sound” statistics. If there is certain data you would like to see or ways you would like to see the data presented differently, drop a comment below and let me know. First up, a summary table: September…
In the open thread yesterday Ira pointed out something sad that is worth sharing with the whole community here. Longtime Seattle Bubble commenter David Losh passed away on October 10th. 18 June, 1953~10 October, 2013 David, a loving husband, father, uncle and brother, passed from this world peacefully last Thursday, October 10th, after a valiant…