Here’s a gem of an article from the Seattle Times, December 2006: Looking ahead: The sky isn’t falling for the Puget Sound market What will 2007 bring? Here’s what Seattle real-estate experts are saying. … So much for any bubble bursting this year. Gardner doesn’t see that happening next year, either. “This bubble lunacy is…
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Friday Flashback: “Seattle isn’t like other cities.”
Time for another Friday Flashback! Today’s flashback comes at you from February 2007, as the Seattle Times declared 2007 to be “The year of the condo in downtown Seattle” (emphasis mine). [Condo developer David] Thyer insists that Seattle isn’t like other cities, where developers are struggling with an oversupply of new condos. There’s a demand…
Predictions: Looking Into the Crystal Ball for 2010
It is time once again for our annual predictions post, where your host goes on record with crazy shots in the dark about what might happen in the Seattle real estate market over the next calendar year. For those of you following along with this game at home, here are the predictions of record for…
Reporting Roundup Flashback: September 2007
Let’s look back a couple years to see what local real estate agents were saying a few months after the price peak in Seattle, and about a year into the housing decline across most of the rest of the country. Here’s a selection of choice quotes from some October 2007 articles. Note that local home…
Matthew Gardner Predictions vs. Reality
Incredible. Even with the major continuing job losses and home prices in unabated decline, Matthew Gardner continues to spread the word of a recovery for Seattle in 2009. Here are a couple of slides from a PowerPoint presentation Matthew Gardner used in a class for local real estate agents on the 19th: Jobs will lead…