I’d like to use some space to tell you a little bit about myself so you can best understand where I’m coming from, what my purpose is in writing this blog, and what I personally believe with respect to a real estate / housing bubble. [2015 Update] As of December 2015, I am 35 and…
Speculators Make Up ~23% of Sales
I just came across an article from back in May that I found interesting enough to post here. It covers the topic of the recent epidemic of people buying real estate as an investment: The National Association of Realtors in Washington, D.C., released survey results in March indicating that 23 percent of all residential real-estate…
Can Seattle’s Working Class Afford Housing?
Today’s Seattle P-I spotlights a class of people in Seattle that could easily (and I would argue will) grow in numbers if current housing cost trends continue. That would be the working homeless. People that actually put out an honest day’s work each day, only to find they don’t have enough money to afford rent….
Think niche deals can be found? Think again.
Let’s go over what we’ve learned about the Seattle real estate market. Single family homes: cost increasing, supply decreasing. Condos: cost increasing, supply decreasing. Geographic range of Seattle’s bubble: north to Mount Vernon, south to Olympia. Today we learn that the bubble’s effects stretch even to the obscure niche markets, such as houseboats. “At one…
Even Mount Vernon is Overheated
Even all the way up in the rural tulip town of Mount Vernon they’re feeling the effects of the housing boom, with home prices and population exploding. To hear those in the know talk, Mount Vernon is the “go-to” place in Skagit Valley for homes over the next 15 years. In that time the county…