Golly, this housing slump sure isn’t much fun (for never-ending appreciation-believers and real estate agents), is it? But hey, at least it’s almost over, right? Wait, what’s that you say? It’s not going to get better soon? Pfft. You’re just some doom-and-gloom blogger, why should we listen to you? Except, that outlook isn’t coming from…
Introducing the Library
Over the last two years, as I’ve been running this blog and researching the housing market, I’ve come across a number of interesting documents. Many of these documents do not deal specifically with the Seattle-area housing market, but are nonetheless definitely worth checking out. In the past, I’ve simply collected such files in a folder…
REALTOR® vs. Reality
Continuing The Tim’s trend of quick posts, I thought I would add this to the flurry of news today. King5 ran a news piece last night that is summarized in this article, entitled Home sellers upping incentives in crowded market The piece quotes Reba Haas, one of the contributors over at Rain City Guide. She…
Local News Quickie Extravaganza Today
At the rate that news stories are suddenly pouring in on the local housing downturn, you would think that the slowdown just came out of nowhere and surprised everyone. Now that the local press has finally woken up to reality about the housing market, there have been too many articles for me to cover each…
News Quickie: Sellers Getting Desperate Out There
A pair of articles today from the Seattle P-I and King 5 News focus in on those poor, poor sellers that actually have to work to sell a home in today’s slow market. No longer are run-down shacks full of years of accumulated junk being bid up to ridiculous heights. Now, you actually have to…