Yesterday’s post about Alaska Air’s condo-booster “article” reminded me of this 2007 piece in the Seattle Times: Condos a bright spot in housing market The condo market is healthier than the detached-house market, and prices are holding their own. Those are the key findings from an analysis released Friday of the Seattle-area condominium market by…
Tag: 2007
Friday Flashback: You Missed Seattle’s Bottom in 2006
Here’s a flashback from June 2007, courtesy of Forbes: Most Resilient U.S. Real Estate Markets When it comes to real estate, the questions on everyone’s lips are: How low is low, and when’s the perfect time to buy back in? That moment has passed in Seattle and Charlotte—both metros hit bottom in the first quarter…
Friday Flashback: “The impossible happened.”
I received the following email totally unsolicited this week from a local agent that I sparred with a couple of times on these pages back in 2007: You were right. I was wrong. A few years ago you predicted how terrible the market would be. I doubted you. Why? Having gone through the tech led…
Friday Flashback: “Laughing Laughing Laughing”
Long-time readers of Seattle Bubble may recall that while I generally avoid engaging in blatant schadenfreude, I do make one specific exception. That special case is for a commenter that used to be quite prolific on these pages, leaving over 800 comments between November 2005 and August 2007. Dozens of those comments were on the…
Friday Flashback: “You’re not going to see the prices come off that much.”
This is one of my favorite gems, dating from November 2007, just a few months after home prices in the Seattle area began their long decline. Robert Mak asked the question: “Where’s the bottom?” In order to find the answer, he has a host of industry insiders give their marketing pitches. Unfortunately the original video…