Somehow last month I missed the five-year anniversary of my lengthy email conversation with local mortgage broker Steve Tytler. Some choice excerpts: I have been actively involved in the Seattle real estate market for more than 20 years and I have studied the market stats all the way back to the 1960’s. I can tell…
Read the Tale of WaMu: “The Lost Bank”
Longtime readers or followers of Seattle real estate and/or local business may remember Kirsten Grind, a local reporter with the Puget Sound Business Journal who reported extensively on the latter-day problems and eventual failure of Washington Mutual. Before leaving Seattle for New York to work for the Wall Street Journal, Kirsten put over a year…
Reader Comment: Offers Appear to be Slowing Down
I received the following email from a reader who has been shopping for homes this spring in North Seattle: This is just a note from the open house circuit. Houses in North Seattle are on the market a little longer than a few weeks ago. They are taking 7-15 days to show ‘pending.’ A few…
By Request: 2+ Years of Redfin Size-Adjusted Prices
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. A few people requested some charts of the data in yesterday’s post going further back than just a year. Redfin doesn’t have data back through before the bust, but there is about two years of data available, so here you go. A year ago, price per square…
Redfin: Seattle-Area Prices Creep Up Through Spring
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted any of the monthly market stats published by my employer, but since I’ve been spending a lot more time than usual knee-deep in these spreadsheets lately, I thought I’d share a few charts from the May update (xls). First…