It’s that fun time of the month once again. That’s right, time for the latest data from the Case-Shiller Home Price Index. According to August data, Up 0.1% July to August. Down 0.2% July to August (seasonally adjusted) Down 14.7% YOY. Down 22.2% from the July 2007 peak Last year prices fell 0.7% from July…
The rain returns, and with it the perfect house-shopping season.
There’s no doubt that the gloomy, dark, wet weather has returned to Seattle. While everyone around Seattle retreats into the warm confines of their living rooms and local coffee shops, I’d like to offer a bit of contrarian advice for the house-shoppers out there. Seize the winter. Winter is hands down the best time to…
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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…