Back from my busy week of travel and recharged over the Easter weekend, it’s time to post the March roundup. As usual, let’s kick things off with Seattle’s #1 real estate cheerleader, Ms. Rhodes, with her fawning article about all about how great and wonderful it is that median prices increased last month. After stalling…
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Aubrey Cohen: Real Estate Cheerleader, Renter
I’ll be posting the March reporting roundup either later today or tomorrow, but I caught this story in my inbox and I couldn’t resist mentioning it. Although the subject is “Journalists gamble on job security at the P-I,” the article contains some interesting information about one of our favorite local real estate reporters… (emphasis mine)…
Bubble Link Roundup
Here are a few short quotes from some recent interesting articles (followed by some pithy one-liners) that I haven’t had the time to dedicate entire posts to: Slumping sales of lots could presage fewer new houses for region A key future indicator of the housing market is down sharply, but that could be a good…
"Market fundamentals are extraordinarily strong."
By now most of you have probably already seen today’s article in the P-I: Homes overvalued by 31.7% in city, report finds. It’s pretty much the usual shtick. “Homes are expensive here, but…” followed by lots of quotes from various real estate “analysts” and “professionals” yammering on about how wonderful the “fundamentals” here are, what…
February Reporting Roundup
I’m going to do the monthly reporting roundup a little differently today. I’m going to keep it simple. What you see below is a list of my favorite line from each of the local writeups. It’s too early to say if this spring’s home sales will be a repeat of last spring’s frenetic activity, but…