I recorded an interview with KIRO news radio yesterday that might be of some interest. The days of buying a house for profit may be gone https://seattlebubble.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/KIRO-2010-08-24.mp3 An excerpt: If you’re looking for an investment, consider stocks and bonds, coins or comic books. The days of buying a house for big profit might be gone…
“Entry Level” Home Sales Fell Furthest in July
In order to get a little bit better of a feel for how the tax credit expiration is affecting the sales mix, let’s take another look at a histogram of single-family home sales in King County. To generate the chart below, I downloaded all the sales data for homes sold in King County from the…
How-To: Find Bank-Owned Homes
I received a few questions in the comments and via email last week about how to find bank-owned homes, so I thought I’d put together a little guide. For the purposes of this post, we’ll consider foreclosures in three stages: Pre-Foreclosure, Unlisted Bank-Owned, and On-Market Bank-Owned. Pre-Foreclosure A home in pre-foreclosure is one where the…
Poll: Renters Only: Why haven’t you bought a house?
This poll was active 08.22.2010 through 08.28.2010.
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2010-08-21
RT @jillayne: Yield Spread Premium for mortgage brokers goes away forever April 1, 2011. http://tinyurl.com/2d6hxaa # RT @KirstenGrind: #WaMu sale hasn’t actually closed, almost two years after #JPMorgan #039;s purchase via @alwynscott @PSBJ: http://bit.ly/dw4lIO # Even more sliminess from disgraced developer Mike Mastro – http://is.gd/elOyR # RT @urbnlivn: New Urbnlivn post: Olive 8 Auctioning 34…