I realized we have beat the subject to death with a pair of posts and this week’s poll, but I had to at least point out a Rhodes piece in today’s Seattle Times on the issue of gas prices and home buying patterns: Will gas prices drive homebuyers away from suburbs? The article starts off…
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Foreclosures, FHA, Commercial, & Countrywide
Here are a few recent stories that have been covered elsewhere and are worth at least mentioning here. Latest foreclosure statistics: Seattle P-I, Foreclosures in Seattle higher, but much lower than nation’s The Seattle area had about twice as many foreclosures in May as it did a year earlier but continued to have a far…
May Reporting Roundup
Before we begin May’s reporting roundup, let’s have a little review of the year so far. January Barb Lamoureux, owner and broker with Lamoureux Real Estate in Everett, said the typical slow December market is over. She’s seen signs the market is picking up, including a significant increase in open house traffic and even some…
April Reporting Roundup
Yesterday I predicted that the local reporting would focus on the paltry month-to-month median price increase, backed up by a plethora of quotes from peppy real estate agents. Today’s reporting, for the most part, does not disappoint. I’m starting to get the impression as I read some of these articles that the reporters are just…
March Reporting Roundup
I would have posted the reporting roundup on Saturday, but I was out of town for the weekend, and my only Internet access was dial-up (*shudder*). The tone of this month’s reporting isn’t too much different from last month, except that we’ve got a small dose of optimism thanks to a slight spring improvement. Of…