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…
Poll: What is your current housing status?
Please vote in this poll using the sidebar. This poll will be active and displayed on the sidebar through 10.06.2007.
Drive by comment: What a small world.
Today I was shopping for a large capital expense item for the office and met with a software vendor and the owner of a hardware dealer up in the Everett area. The software vendor was showing his wares in a presentation and his accent was thick. Obviously the gentleman was from Britain. He asked what…
Lenders’ Tightening Standards Even Hit Seattle
Here’s the latest from Aubrey Cohen over at the P-I: Mortgages harder to get for local borrowers Lenders who previously approved mortgages to people with bad credit, no down payment and little or no documentation of income now are refusing loans if even one of those three factors is questionable. This is true even in…
Case-Shiller: Seattle Stagnant in July
The prediction (emphasis added): When July’s housing stats came out last week, the most confusing piece of data was that despite skyrocketing local inventory and tightening lending across the nation, the median price still jumped up 2.3% from June, bouncing back into double-digit YOY territory at a 10.6% increase since July 2006. … I believe…