This poll was active 08.01.2010 through 08.07.2010.
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2010-07-31
Some anecdotal sales price points around Seattle from the @SeattleTimes http://is.gd/dEVfA # Sweet, Seattle Bubble makes up 11 of the top 100 @Tableau vizes of Q1 & Q2. story: http://is.gd/dIXUD list: http://is.gd/dIXU0 # via @Crosscut: "Upside of a downturn: new neighborhood housing for the low-income" http://is.gd/dMi27 # Even the real estate boosters at Inman News…
Friday Flashback: “No Slides, Good Condition to Build On”
Here’s an amusing pair of photos from the Seattle Municipal Archives, spotted by Vintage Seattle. At left, a real estate for sale sign posted on Perkins Lane in Magnolia in 1938. At right, a home on the very same Perkins Lane in 1954. 1938: Perkins Lane is slide-proof! The ground here is healthy and analysts…
Housing Market Heated Up in Q2, Affordability Fell
The latest issue of Sound Housing Quarterly has been published (Q2 2010). Sound Housing Quarterly is a subscription-based sister project to Seattle Bubble that I created to provide a single consolidated and consistent source of high-level local housing market stats and analysis. Here are a couple of highlights from the second quarter issue. The Real…
Case-Shiller Tiers: Expiring Tax Credit Bumps All 3 Tiers
Let’s check out the three price tiers for the Seattle area, as measured by Case-Shiller. Remember, Case-Shiller’s “Seattle” data is based on single-family home repeat sales in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties. Note that the tiers are determined by sale volume. In other words, 1/3 of all sales fall into each tier. For more details…