The Seattle Times will be hosting a “Live Q&A on residential real estate” with Elizabeth Rhodes (real estate cheerleader) and Matthew Gardner (local economist) tomorrow from noon to one o’clock. Presumably this is some sort of online chat thing, although the announcement isn’t clear. You can ask a question in advance via a web form,…
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Seattle Price Gains to be “Positive but Modest”
The real estate reporting/advertising machine kicked into high gear this weekend at the Seattle Times, where they launched a whole new section of reports on local “home values.” The headlining article, titled Home prices: from sizzle to simmer, contains a fun mix of truth and empty assurances. With real-estate markets across the country reeling, Seattle-area…
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…
My Clients Don’t Have Any Money
Living most of my life in Florida, cockroaches were a fact of life. In general, if you spotted one cockroach, that meant there were at least 1,000 others somewhere, waiting in the wings. In the past few months homeowner subprime sob stories have been coming at us from all over the country, ad nauseam. With…
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…