Here are a few local real estate stories to kick off this snowy Christmas week. Aubrey Cohen, Seattle P-I: It’s refi — not buy — in Seattle’s housing market Unusually low interest rates have spurred a run of mortgage refinancings in the Seattle area, but not necessarily more home purchases. … Andrew Gledhill, an associate…
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Weekend News Roundup – Rents Flattening, Development Halting
I was out of town all weekend in SF (driving back yesterday was not particularly fun, I assure you). Here’s a roundup of some of the local and notable national real estate stories that were waiting for me in my inbox upon my return this afternoon: First up, a blog post by P-I real estate…
November Reporting Roundup
Let’s take some time to check out the local press’ reaction to the undeniably slow NWMLS housing market statistics for October. Once again, my favorite part of the NWMLS press release that accompanied yesterday’s numbers comes from Dick “Bottom-Calling” Beeson, NWMLS director and Windermere broker. Windermere’s Beeson, a member of the Northwest MLS board of…
Signs of the Times
I thought I’d lump a few “sign of the times” type of stories into a single post, since it gets old after a while constantly reading (and writing) posts that are basically just slight variations on the “the real estate market is slow” theme. Here’s another interesting piece from Kirsten Grind over at the Puget…
Seattle PI: Washington home sales drop more than anywhere else in the nation
Editor’s Note: I’d like to welcome new contributor Jonness to Seattle Bubble. He maintains the excellent set of tools at HousingCorrection.com and has provided an interesting analysis of housing data in his comments. – The Tim An article in the Seattle P-I indicates that our home sales slowed more than anywhere else in the nation….