The latest data from Case-Shiller has been released. Let’s have a look at how Seattle is performing: Down a quarter of a percent August to September. Up 4.69% YOY. Back to back month-to-month declines have as we have now seen from July to September have not happened since 1995. The NWMLS King County SFH Median…
Housing Market Schadenfreude
There was a good discussion of housing market schadenfreude (or lack thereof) over the holiday weekend in the comments to a recent post. I thought would be worth posting the highlights of the conversation, and chiming in with a few thoughts of my own. rose-colored-ghoulaid: I for one don’t want misfortune to shine on others….
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Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving everybody. It’s time to relax and think about what you’re thankful for, so no real estate post today. Also, there probably won’t be a post tomorrow either, because while I won’t be out consuming, I will still be down here in Vancouver (Washington), chilling with the family.
“New levels of creativity” in listings
Aubrey Cohen comes at us today with a frank and sometimes amusing look at real estate agents’ habit of massaging the English language to attempt to make their listings stand out in an increasingly larger sea of properties for sale. Of special note in today’s article is the copious quoting of local agent Ira Sacharoff,…