With home prices off a third or more around Seattle from their hyper-inflated housing bubble levels, interest rates still hovering in the sub-five-percent range, and numerous economic fundamentals indicating a market more balanced than it has been in nearly a decade, has the perennial claim of home salesmen come true? Is now, finally, “a great…
Poll: Unseasonably rainy weather would cause me to delay buying a home.
This poll was active 04.24.2011 sidebar through 04.30.2011.
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2011-04-23
Our guess the price contest house was de-listed 12 days ago, but was just re-listed again yesterday at the same price. http://is.gd/onKJAr # RT @GeekWireNews: Zillow.com beats Trulia to the punch, files to go public http://goo.gl/fb/wQPnf # According to the Irish Independent, Seattle's housing market has already recovered! http://is.gd/1QrDSg I guess I missed it… #…
Are Short Sales Getting Easier?
Over in this weekend’s open thread, Tim K. (a.k.a. “S-Crow,” owner of Legacy Escrow) notes: Short Sales moving along in our office: B of A – under 4 week approval. Key Bank – under 4 week approval. (Not indicative of every situation, but waiting months on end seems to be the exception not the rule)….
Has the Tide Turned Against Home Ownership?
Now seems like as good a time as any to have another look at the “Cycle of Market Emotions”: The Cycle of Market Emotions By my reckoning, in late 2007 we were somewhere between anxiety and denial, and by mid-2010 we were treading water between fear and desperation. Today I suspect we’ve made it to…