Checking Up on That 2010 Downtown Condo Dream
Here’s an interesting comparison. First, this graphic, posted here in June 2006, from a Seattle P-I article titled Booming development set to change Seattle’s look: Then, a similar graphic from the most recent Seattle Business Magazine. The red rectangle on the first graphic shows the area that the second graphic covers. I guess Seattle wasn’t…
Puget Sound Counties November Update
Let’s take a look at November NWMLS statistics from around the sound. Unfortunately, I’m a bit behind in updating the cool interactive charts, so a few static snapshots will have to do for this month. You can of course still download the spreadsheets in Excel 2007 and Excel 2003 format. Here’s our usual table of…
Short Sales Make Up Nearly 10% of Closed Sales in King Co.
As many of you probably know, Redfin has a great feature that allows you do download the results of any search to an Excel file. One aspect of this feature that you may not be aware of is that one of the fields that is populated on the resulting spreadsheet indicates whether or not each…
Poll: Vote for your favorite new name for Seattle Bubble
A decent number of commenters on Thursday’s post were critical of the chosen new name for Seattle Bubble, lambasting it as “boring,” “bland,” and “insipid.” So, here’s your one last chance to suggest something better. I’ve come up with five additional alternatives, and if you don’t like those, drop your best suggestion in the comments….