As if providing me excellent mortgage service through my homebuying process wasn’t enough, long-time Seattle Bubble friend Rhonda Porter recently dropped off a hand-made belated housewarming present for my family: Note the bubbles coming from the chimney of the house. So amazing. Thanks again, Rhonda! P.S. (If you’re new here, no, I am not a…
Can Seattle Support Six Pro Sports Teams?
Just a quick note, if you heard me on the radio today speaking on the subject of whether Seattle can support six professional sports teams, you can find that analysis on my personal site TimAndJeni.com. For my regular readers, if you dig my flavor of charts and tables and you’re into local sports, it might…
Will Higher Interest Rates Kill the Housing Market?
Here’s a sampling of quotes from news articles about mortgage interest rates. “…a new reality: The economy has made the transition from tentative to robust recovery, and the period of historically low interest rates is ending.” “In the residential market, the belief that the period of historically low interest rates may end has begun to…
Upper Percentiles Rapidly Approach YoY Break Even
Let’s take another look at the King County single-family sale price percentiles. Here’s how I break down the price percentiles for these posts. Each bucket is a cutoff where some percentage of homes sold below that price, while the remaining percentage sold above that price. Bottom: 10% below, 90% above. Low: 25% below, 75% above….
Real Actual Listing Photos: Draw Something
It’s time for another installment of Real Actual Listing Photos. Once a month (or so) I round up some of the most bizarre listing photos from around the Seattle area and post them here, with brief excerpts from the real actual listing description, and probably a bit of snarky commentary. The idea for this series…