It’s that time of the month again… time to check in with the local press to hear the same old regurgitated message about how great and healthy our housing market is. Elizabeth Rhodes, Seattle Times: What gives? Local home-sales market is softening, but prices keep rising Local home sales cool off; why are prices still…
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Local Odds & Ends
Got a couple of links to share this morning. Trying to clear out the backlog before May stats from the NWMLS hit either today or tomorrow. Priced out of Seattle? King5 News recommends “shared home buying” with friends or even strangers. They also make a recommendation you don’t often see in the local press: save…
April Reporting Roundup
Here’s a compilation of what your local press (aka real estate advertisers) had to say about last month’s home sales data from the NWMLS. It’s depressing to think that these sources are where most people get their news of the market from… Elizabeth Rhodes, Seattle Times:King County home prices keep rising, bucking national trendBuying a…
Renting in Seattle "may make economic sense"
Finally some semi-useful information out of Dupre + Scott. Mr. Cohen reports on the “1-19 Unit Report” just released by Dupre + Scott in this terrifying tale of skyrocketing rents and plummeting vacancies: Rental houses get scarce, expensive The good news for people who cannot afford to buy a house in Seattle is that it…
Vacation Link Roundup
Looks like I didn’t miss too much Seattle housing news while I was gone. I’m looking forward to seeing the April numbers next week. Here’s a summary of what I noticed while clearing my inbox: Seattle, Portland, and Dallas are the only cities of the 20 tracked by the Case-Shiller / S&P Index in which…