Here’s a minor roundup post for you, with a few stories from the last few days that are worth a brief mention: After selling just 17 out of 114 units, an in-progress condo complex near Seattle Center will instead be completed as “luxury apartments.” In recent months, developers have shelved plans to convert several Seattle…
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John L. Scott: “Now Is A Smart Time To Buy”
A number of people pointed me toward a “white paper” recently released from real estate brokerage John L. Scott titled “Why Now Is A Smart Time To Buy” (pdf). It purports to be “an objective assessment of the housing market as it stands at the end of 2007” designed “to help home buyers assess the…
“New levels of creativity” in listings
Aubrey Cohen comes at us today with a frank and sometimes amusing look at real estate agents’ habit of massaging the English language to attempt to make their listings stand out in an increasingly larger sea of properties for sale. Of special note in today’s article is the copious quoting of local agent Ira Sacharoff,…
Who Should You Believe?
The post you are about to read is true. The names have been change to protect the… Well, mainly because I don’t want to start a blog war. For this same reason, I have not provided links to the posts I mention. They are available for verification upon private request. By now, most sensible people…
Our Doom and Gloom Media
It seems that every time the local press prints a story that is slightly less than 100% “rah-rah, go home prices” people come crawling out of the woodwork to accuse them of using “doom and gloom” or “sensationalism” to sell papers. Accusations like that really amuse me, since (as regular readers of these pages know…