San Francisco has always been a favorite place of mine to visit. I even lived there during a brief time in 1999 when the vacancy rate was less than half a percent! One thing that always struck me about San Francisco was the homeless. Not simply the sheer volume of homeless but the lengths at…
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas everybody.
Reader Question: Redmond New Construction
Here’s a series of questions from a reader that was posted in a recent thread. (The questions were originally posted under the name “Sash,” but due to a strange bug in the transition to the new Blogger the comments now show as “anonymous”.) Folks, you seem to have a lot of data on the housing…
Associated Grocers Cashes In on the Bubble
Associated Grocers is selling a 55-acre plot of land in south Seattle, and apparently the commercial real estate world is all riled up. It’s the biggest slice of Seattle land to come on the market in “recent years,” and it’s coming on the market because the owners want to “cash in on the significant appreciation.”…
Forbes’ "Smartest" Cities—Where’s Seattle?
I’m sure that those of you who have been reading Seattle Bubble since at least April recall the AP study that heralded Seattle as the “most educated” city in the USA (or “smartest,” depending on whether the article author made the false assumption that more education == smarter). According to the April study: Forty-seven percent…