I did a phone interview a few weeks ago with Austin Jenkins, an NPR correspondent down in Olympia, about where the local housing market and economy are heading. Here is the resulting story: The New Normal: What Will The NW Housing Market Look Like? The Northwest economy is on the verge of recovery and with…
Hear Tim on the Radio [Update: Later this Week]
[Update: I got a message from the producer, who said that for some reason Weissbach’s show will not be running live today. We are going to try to reschedule for later this week.] Tune in to the Weissbach show today [this Thursday] at 5:30 PM on AM 570 to hear me (The Tim) discuss the…
Geographic Sales Shifts: Seattle Still Pulling More Sales
Let’s check in on an update of how the sales volume is breaking down among the different price tier regions around the county. For a more in-depth explanation of the process and reasoning behind this data, hit this post. As of July, this is where the median prices were for our regions: low end (South…
Federal Government Shifting Focus to Rentals
Sorry, this isn’t a Seattle-specific story, but it caught my attention this weekend as it seems like a major policy shift on the national level: President shifts focus to renting, not owning The Obama administration, in a major shift on housing policy, is abandoning George W. Bush’s vision of creating an “ownership society” and instead…
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