The King County Council held a town hall meeting in Bellevue last night to discuss the Eastside economy. One of the hot topics in the meeting was of course housing. For instance, it was suggested that restrictive land use regulations have a hand in the skyrocketing housing costs: King County needs to consider loosening the…
Seattle’s Bubbling Stupidity Gets More Attention
You may recall a few weeks back when I highlighted a sad example of bubble mania here in Seattle. Thanks to locally-based MSN Money columnist Bill Fleckenstein, that little stunt is getting even more attention. There was another sign of the times in “Bidders win unseen lands, discover they bought trouble,” a story in the…
Spare A Cool $40 Million?
Here’s an amusing tongue-in-cheek tidbit for you from the Seattle P-I: Contrary to popular opinion, housing is not expensive in the Northwest. As long as you’re astoundingly wealthy. That about sums it up for me. (Dan Richman, Bill Virgin, Seattle P-I, 08.29.2005) Seattle Bubble Tip Jar
"Olympia market overvalued or just fine"
The Olympian is reporting on both sides of the story with their latest report: Studies disagree on real estate’s future. According to a study produced by National City Corp., a financial holding company based in Cleveland, Ohio, home prices in the Olympia market were overvalued by as much as 18 percent. But a separate study…
"I could think of effervescence"
The general purpose of this blog is to post only stories relating specifically to the Seattle real estate / housing bubble, but Ben Jones pointed out an article on Bankrate.com that was just too good to pass up. It highlights people who have sold their homes and are renting while they wait out the bubble….