Here’s a video piece that aired this weekend on King 5 Up Front with Robert Mak where he poses some questions about Seattle’s housing market: More homes for sale, prices going down… Is it a good time to buy? … Where’s the bottom? And just how long might the slowdown last? Unfortunately, to find the…
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Welcome KING 5 Viewers!
If you’re viewing this blog for the first time today because you saw me (Tim Ellis) on KING 5 tonight, I’d like to take a moment to welcome you. Seattle Bubble is the Seattle area’s #1 resource for news, analysis, commentary, and community discussion on the local real estate market. This community site is focused…
REALTOR® vs. Reality
Continuing The Tim’s trend of quick posts, I thought I would add this to the flurry of news today. King5 ran a news piece last night that is summarized in this article, entitled Home sellers upping incentives in crowded market The piece quotes Reba Haas, one of the contributors over at Rain City Guide. She…
News Quickie: Sellers Getting Desperate Out There
A pair of articles today from the Seattle P-I and King 5 News focus in on those poor, poor sellers that actually have to work to sell a home in today’s slow market. No longer are run-down shacks full of years of accumulated junk being bid up to ridiculous heights. Now, you actually have to…
More Local Stories of the Slowdown
You know that the local housing slowdown is essentially undeniable when even the local TV news starts to pick up the story… It’s not exactly a slump, but some of the wind has left the sails of the local real estate market. What used to sell in two weeks is now taking as long as…