A couple of interesting letters to the editor floated to the surface today in response to Ms. Rhodes’ latest article. Here’s my favorite: I guess I don’t understand how anyone would think that a $400,000 to $500,000 price tag on a town house is considered to be affordable housing. Not for folks who work for…
Tag: Seattle_Times
February Reporting Roundup
I’m going to do the monthly reporting roundup a little differently today. I’m going to keep it simple. What you see below is a list of my favorite line from each of the local writeups. It’s too early to say if this spring’s home sales will be a repeat of last spring’s frenetic activity, but…
Bubble Link Roundup
It’s time to clear out all the news alerts in my inbox again. Here’s another round of local real estate links from the past few weeks: Seattle definitely appears to be “special” in one area: real estate websites. Ms. Rhodes reports on ForeclosurePoint; the latest to join the fray. Bremerton: up and coming? If you…
Bubble Link Roundup
There were a lot of mildly interesting real estate stories in the local rags this weekend. So, I think it’s time for another link roundup: a list of links that are worth posting, but not each as their own post. The following links happen to all be specific to the Seattle area. Christy L. Thomas…
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…