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Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2009-10-24
5,000-acre flopped development in Pierce made front-page news in the Tacoma News Tribune today: Chapter 11 for Cascadia http://is.gd/4oCjp # PSBJ: Mastro Properties is in worse financial condition than “many creditors imagined." http://is.gd/4oHFI # New Seattle web-based news outlet The SunBreak takes a look at Seattle's commercial real estate mess: http://is.gd/4oIvA # What the heck?…
Where the Jobs Are (and Aren’t), September 2009
Here’s a quarterly check on the jobs situation around Seattle, courtesy of data from the Washington State Employment Security Department. The style of these charts are stolen from the excellent San Diego housing reporter Rich Toscano. First up, here’s a two-year chart (stolen from my subscription journal Sound Housing Quarterly) of the year-over-year change in…
Extension to Fraud-Laced $8k Homebuyer Tax Credit to Piggy-Back on Unemployment Bill?
Here’s a pair of somewhat conflicting stories about the push to extend and expand the inefficient, expensive, economically stupid $8,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit. From the real estate news source Inman News: Final push for tax credit Real estate industry trade groups are mounting a final push for an extension of the first-time homebuyer tax…
KUOW Seeking Stories from Commercial Real Estate Investors
I received the following request from a KUOW reporter that I thought was worth forwarding on to the general reading audience: Another of our reporters is working on a story on commercial real estate investment. I recognize that your blog follows residential real estate more closely, but I know many of the people reading it…