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Reporting Roundup Flashback: September 2007

Posted on October 9, 2009July 29, 2010 by The Tim

Let’s look back a couple years to see what local real estate agents were saying a few months after the price peak in Seattle, and about a year into the housing decline across most of the rest of the country. Here’s a selection of choice quotes from some October 2007 articles. Note that local home…

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$8k Tax Credit: Inefficient, Expensive, Economically Stupid

Posted on October 8, 2009January 18, 2010 by The Tim

The intensity of the push from a couple of major national lobbying groups (NAR and NAHB) to extend and/or expand the $8,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit seems to have increased since we last discussed the topic on these pages. With the supposed end of the program coming up in about seven weeks, now seems like…

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The Mythical Teeming Hordes of “Pent-Up Buyers”

Posted on October 7, 2009February 1, 2010 by The Tim

We’ve been hearing a lot of speculation recently that goes something along these lines: There is basically this enormous teeming horde of potential home buyers out there lurking on the sidelines for no good reason. All we need to do is come up with the right concoction of incentives to get these pent-up buyers off…

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September Reporting Roundup: Get your SURGE RALLY on!

Posted on October 6, 2009 by The Tim

Time for the monthly reporting roundup, where I read all the local paper rehashes of the NWMLS press release so you don’t have to. First up, an excerpt from the NWMLS press release itself: Northwest MLS brokers agree "there’s a lot to be optimistic about" “There’s a lot to be optimistic about,” according to one…

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NWMLS: Closed Sales Volume in Summer Holding Pattern

Posted on October 5, 2009October 5, 2009 by The Tim

Looks like it’s time for September market statistics from the NWMLS. Here’s the NWMLS press release: Northwest MLS brokers agree "there’s a lot to be optimistic about". Here’s your King County SFH summary, with the arrows to show whether the year-over-year direction of each indicator is positive or negative news for buyers and sellers: September…

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