Good Monday everyone. I’d like to take a moment to announce a few new things going on here at Seattle Bubble. First off, you may have noticed that the “About This Blog” section on the right has been transmogrified into “Read These Posts.” I realized that there were some posts that I was consistently referring…
A California Comparison, Part 2
Yesterday I compared King County to San Diego County in order to address some of the reasons we commonly hear that the Seattle housing market will remain strong. The focus of this post is slightly different than Part 1, where I used San Diego as an example to show that certain positive local attributes will…
“…didn’t buy their ticket on the last spaceship flight off a planet that’s about to explode.”
What a delightfully entertaining gift the Seattle P-I has given us this Friday in the form of guest columnist Sarah McCormic’s amusing thoughts about the Seattle housing market: Several years ago, on a stroll around my Ballard neighborhood, I stopped to gawk at the huge price tag on a For Sale sign in front of…
WaMu: Housing Slowdown Driving Down Profit
In the past, we have drawn attention on Seattle Bubble to cutbacks or other unpleasant news for local mortgage-related businesses. The reason for this is to draw attention to the fact that the national slowdown in housing is having negative local effects here in the Seattle area. With that in mind, I thought I should…
A California Comparison
Since Mr. Kelly did such a poor job of actually comparing the Northwest to California, I’d like to get my own idea of how the two compare. For the illustrative purpose of this post, I’m going to be comparing the regions of Seattle and San Diego. Here in King County, the median home price (condos…