The SunBreak broke an interesting story on Saturday afternoon: Belltown’s McGuire Apartments Killed by Flawed Construction Photo by Flickr user Nick Denny The McGuire apartment building, at 210 Wall Street in Belltown, opened its doors in 2001. Now, just nine years later, it’s closing them for good. Though the marketing copy, ironically, boasts “exceptional attention…
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Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2010-04-10
Eric Pryne has some more of the details on the fiasco of the Thornton Place condos at Northgate: http://is.gd/bdEpR # RT @calculatedrisk: Percent Job Losses During Recessions, aligned at Bottom http://is.gd/beOWm # via http://ritholtz.com/ – "I Saw the Crisis Coming. Why Didn’t the Fed? " http://is.gd/bf0oG # This letter to the @SeattleTimes editor sounds like…
Friday Flashback: “Home prices will not go any lower.”
Flashback to September 2006, when the 20-city Case-Shiller index was nearly 30% higher than its latest reading. The National Association of REALTORS® launched a “Public Awareness Campaign” titled It’s a Great Time to Buy or Sell a Home. The primary flier for this campaign is pictured at right. Here are the highlights from the flier:…
Interest Rates SKYROCKET! Everybody PANIC!
Yesterday the Seattle Times ran a syndicated Associated Press piece that came across to me as especially over-the-top…