If you thought last month’s reporting was fun, just wait till you get a load of the goomy tone of the latest wave of articles. I find it interesting that the NWMLS chose to release the statistics so late in the day yesterday, on the fourth business day of the month (rather than the fifth,…
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A Dose of Reality from the Everett Herald
I picked up this article off of The Housing Bubble this morning and thought it was worthy of a blog post. This is probably the least rosy depiction of the local real estate market I have seen from any of our local MSM outlets in the past few years. Selling a house? What to do now With…
News Quickie: Snohomish Building Boom Over
First up in today’s news quickies is word from Snohomish County that—guess what?— the housing boom has ended. No, seriously. The party is over. Snohomish County’s housing boom is over. Builders are laying off workers, houses are staying on the market longer, and the overall number of permit applications has dropped by hundreds compared to…
A request for clarity.
Rather than place a lengthy remark, I thought I’d place it as a post. Hope you don’t mind. I’m going to type as I think, so I get a free pass on typo’s. Regarding the Steve Tytler’s Everett Herald piece: Steve & fellow bubble believers, In the spirit of your article, I don’t disagree with…
Tytler: “I don’t buy into the ‘gloom and doom'”
For those of you not familiar with Steve Tytler, he is a columnist for the Everett Herald (and also the owner of a mortgage company) who has been pretty much the most reasonable voice in the local media on the housing market. Despite our difference of opinion on just how things will play out, I…