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More Local Stories of the Slowdown

Posted on September 18, 2007September 18, 2007 by The Tim

You know that the local housing slowdown is essentially undeniable when even the local TV news starts to pick up the story… It’s not exactly a slump, but some of the wind has left the sails of the local real estate market. What used to sell in two weeks is now taking as long as…

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Introducing the Seattle Distressed Sellers Index

Posted on September 17, 2007September 17, 2007 by The Tim

I’d like to introduce a new statistic to Seattle Bubble: the Distressed Sellers Index (DSI). This is a metric I have been recording since May, and while I don’t have enough data to do year-over-year comparisons yet, given the recent action, I thought it was a good time to bring it in. The DSI uses…

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Prices in Seattle “Not Unthinkable Yet”

Posted on September 13, 2007September 13, 2007 by The Tim

Hot on the heels of an unusually balanced report on the latest NWMLS home sales data, Aubrey Cohen comes back with another piece on the local market, this one full of non-sensical rationalizations for continued price gains. Ken Kam, of Honolulu, scoped out second-home possibilities during a Seattle visit last month. “It seems like it’s…

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Cash infusions at CFC continue, WaMu exits warehouse biz, more downsizing

Posted on September 13, 2007 by S-Crow

National Mortgage News reports that Countrywide received an additional $12 Billion in secured financing and that mortgage powerhouse, WaMu, is exiting the warehouse biz. In addition, there are rumblings that Countrywide employees may be suing Angelo Mozillo et. al, complaining that the company allegedly cheated them out of millions by concealing the true health of…

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Homebuying Platitudes vs. Reality

Posted on September 12, 2007December 3, 2008 by The Tim

This is a post that I originally wrote for the highly-recommended personal finance blog Get Rich Slowly. As such, the style of writing is more geared toward the audience of that site. However, I felt that the post would be of interest to the readers here as well, so I am re-posting it in its…

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