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What does Personal Income tell us about near future home prices?

Posted on June 1, 2009May 31, 2009 by deejayoh

There have been a couple of discussions in the comments section in the last week or so about the relationship between home prices and incomes.   I thought it would be  a good time to queue up a post about the long-term price-to-income trends, where we are now, and what the possible outcomes could be. The…

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Seattle Homes Still 10-20% Overpriced Compared to Rents and Incomes

Posted on April 2, 2009May 31, 2009 by The Tim

Inspired by this post from Rich Toscano down in San Diego showing that home prices there have reached historically reasonable levels when compared to rents and incomes, I thought I would put together some similar charts for Seattle to see how close we are to reasonable home prices. Here’s the chart for home prices to…

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Rental Supply Set to Skyrocket

Posted on February 6, 2009February 6, 2009 by The Tim

Wasn’t it just a year ago that we were still being regaled with stories about how tight the housing supply was in the Seattle area, and how our population has been growing so fast that construction just couldn’t keep up, so of course high home prices and increasing rents are going to continue forever and…

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Regulations “unlikely to contribute more than 17%” of home price

Posted on January 5, 2009January 5, 2009 by The Tim

Some of you may recall back in February last year, when the Seattle Times ran a story about UW professor Theo Eicher’s land use regulations study, with the headline declaring “Rules add $200,000 to Seattle house price.” Here at Seattle Bubble we had serious questions about the dramatic conclusion in that study, and the methods…

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Renting in and Around Seattle Still the Smart Financial Move

Posted on December 3, 2008December 4, 2008 by The Tim

Let’s take an updated look at some Seattle-area rent vs. buy comparisons to see if the situation has improved at all since we analyized it last summer. Back then, the real-world example I used compared two similar homes in Kirkland. Total monthly costs for the rental were $1,515, while the home for sale would have…

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