Forbes just loves to frame their articles around lists. You may recall Seattle showing up frequently on previous such real-estate-related lists, such as Best Places to Flip a Home (#1), Richest Cities In The U.S. (#8), Best Cities For Jobs (#34), and Most Overpriced Places In The U.S. 2005 (#1). Well, lucky us, we made…
Rents Reverting to Mean, Condos Repartmenting
I should at least mention the local news reports about the latest Dupre + Scott rental survey. Here’s the meat of the report, courtesy of Aubrey Cohen at the P-I: The King County vacancy rate hit 3.8 percent this month, down from 3.9 percent in March and 4.2 percent in September 2006, according to Dupre…
Cramer vs. Shiller: Is Seattle Immune?
By now most of you have probably already seen the Today Show video from last week in which financial entertainer Jim Cramer stated the following: Don’t you dare buy a home now. You will lose money. Of course, real estate salespeople across the country were outraged by this, and pretty much immediately flew into frenzied…
Everett Makes BMIT’s “If Only I Waited”
Over at the Bubble Markets Inventory Tracking blog, they’ve got an ongoing series titled “If Only I Waited,” where they highlight purchases in which a home is sold (or for sale) at a significant discount to recent sales in the same neighborhood. For the first time, the Seattle area has been featured, with a pair…
Introducing Seattle Bubble Polls
Remember back in the dark ages, when Seattle Bubble was chained down to Blogger, and therefore didn’t have any way to add cool things like sidebar inventory trackers and built-in polls? Despite these archaic limitations, way back in August of last year, we managed to squeak out a poll. Lots of things have happened since…