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This story about the Yakima housing market caught my eye because my wife and I stopped in Yakima yesterday on the way home from our 3-day weekend trip. I thought it would be worth posting here because it’s an interesting contrast to the type of piece you find in the Seattle-area papers. Notice the tone…

Have you noticed how touchy some people can be when it comes to discussing the subject of whether homes are overpriced or not? It’s almost gotten as bad as politics. For the best/worst example of this, head over to the Craigslist housing forum (if you dare). I read it occasionally, but honestly not very often,…

The Seattle P-I Virtual Editorial Board highlighted an excellent comment to an editorial about the $1.6 billion tax package. A reader going by the handle "Face Reality" made the following insightful observations: Seattle has no coherent "tax plan": Or finance, revenue, fiscal or spending plans for that matter. It hasn’t for over 20 years. A…

Depending on who you want to listen to, the luxury home scene is either a stagnant buyers market or it is trending upward. The Seattle Times reports on the small number of buyers relative to million-dollar-plus listings. There are dozens of grand homes — daresay mansions — such as the Westwold in Snohomish County. Yet…

I hope you’re sitting down, because you’re in for a shock. Get this… when "hot, hot, hot" home prices "soar" "sizzle" and make "huge gains," tax assessments that do the same aren’t far behind! I know—who would have thought! Linda Peterson’s 1,200-square-foot rambler in Monroe has the same avocado-colored sinks it had when she bought…