Here’s the local press’ take on yesterday’s Case-Shiller data. For the most part, the reports come across as suprisingly even-handed. The biggest exception to that was the P-I’s original headline for Mr. Cohen’s piece: Seattle-area home-price appreciation leads nation again. It has since been changed to the less misleading: Mixed news on home prices. Home-price…
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Trahant Keeps Hitting Them Out of the Park
Mark Trahant is definitely my favorite writer for any of the local papers. If we ever get around to having a Seattle Bubble meet-up, he’s definitely invited, and his drink is on me. His latest piece continues to hammer home the reality of the world we live in today: mortgage / housing market is a…
On Condos and Condo Marketers
There’s an amusing article over at Seattlest on the strange proclivity that Seattle P-I reporter Aubrey Cohen has for quoting the marketing firm Williams Marketing: Did you know that there’s only one credible real-estate industry voice in Seattle? It’s a marketing firm in town that works with real estate developers. We’ve learned this from reading…
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…
News Quickie: Foreclosures Decrease Nationally, Increase Locally
Aubrey Cohen has really been picking up the pace lately, with the new blog and an increased number of articles. One of his latest articles mentions that the rate of new foreclosures is actually recently increasing in Seattle at a faster rate than the country as a whole. Although the Seattle area continued to have…