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Rent vs. Buy Comparisons: Have the excesses been removed?

Posted on October 14, 2009January 18, 2010 by The Tim

Let’s try another rent vs. buy exercise to see if “all the excesses have already been removed” as some have claimed. Rather than delve into depth on a specific randomly-selected Seattle-area neighborhood, let’s instead look at what a specific type of house might cost you in multiple Seattle-area neighborhoods to rent vs. how much it…

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Desperately Searching for a Truly Positive Sign

Posted on October 13, 2009January 18, 2010 by The Tim

[Warning: The following commentary is only marginally related to real estate / housing.] Despite what some of my readers in the real estate industry may think, I’m a generally upbeat, optimistic kind of guy. I like to believe that things will be better tomorrow than they are today; that American ingenuity and hard work can…

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Lawrence Yun: “Home values have overshot downward”

Posted on October 11, 2009 by The Tim

In case there is any doubt about whether NAR chief “economist” Lawrence Yun is just as much of a shameless price-boosting shill as his predecessor David Lereah, I present some excerpts from a post he made on Friday regarding the inefficient, expensive, and economically stupid homebuyer tax credit: Unleashing Pent-Up Housing Demand and Sustainable Economic…

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Poll: What is the chance the housing tax credit gets extended/expanded?

Posted on October 11, 2009October 18, 2009 by The Tim

Please vote in this poll using the sidebar. Props to AMS for the poll idea. This poll will be active and displayed on the sidebar through 10.17.2009.

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Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2009-10-10

Posted on October 10, 2009 by The Tim

via Mish:"We are at greater risk of a total meltdown due to a deflationary collapse than we were in 2007." http://is.gd/3XFvc # Wow, nearly 1 in 5 downtown Seattle offices are sitting empty right now, and vacancy "hasn't peaked." http://is.gd/3YwWH # Time to eliminate gov. subsidies that have turned homeownership into "an economic ball and…

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