Headlines in today's Seattle Times RE section focus on fixer-uppers & downsizing. Quite a shift from a couple years ago. http://is.gd/aySqh # It's always a good time to generate a commission! http://is.gd/aBKCJ # Zillow teams up with John L. Scott – http://digg.com/u1QNSW # While you're waiting for me to put up today's post, enjoy some…
PNWHS & REBarCamp Audio Pencasts
For anyone who is interested in listening to some straight audio from yesterday’s PNWHS event and one session from today’s REBarCamp event, I present the pencasts below. Lennox Scott’s rousing main talk begins on page three of session 2. Float over the number in the lower-right of a pencast to jump between pages, then click…
Morsels of Market Musings from PNWHS
Rather than editorializing on everything I heard at the Pacific Northwest Housing Summit today, I thought you all might just enjoy some unfiltered quotes from the industry professionals. Bret Bertolin Senior Analyst, Washington State Economic and Revenue Forecast Council On the broad economy… We believe that the economy has turned the corner, and it pick…
Local Real Estate Insiders Brainstorm the Market
I’ll be spending all day today and tomorrow attending a pair of local real estate events. Today is the Pacific Northwest Housing Summit, at which a distinguished panel of industry insiders will be discussing the current market, the future of the market, and probably a bunch of sales tactics for sellers of various real estate…
Puget Sound Counties Interactive February Update
Let’s take a look at February NWMLS statistics from around the sound. As usual, courtesy Tableau Software (available free to use online), the Around the Sound update is rocking sweet interactive data visualizations. Feel free to download the old charts in Excel 2007 and Excel 2003 format. To get specific info about a certain point…