{"id":1755,"date":"2008-03-25T22:19:14","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T05:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/25\/welcome-king-5-viewers-2\/"},"modified":"2008-10-07T13:23:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T20:23:56","slug":"welcome-king-5-viewers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/25\/welcome-king-5-viewers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome KING 5 Viewers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re viewing this blog for the first time today because you saw me (Tim Ellis) on KING 5 News tonight, I&#8217;d like to take a moment to welcome you.  Seattle Bubble is the Seattle area&#8217;s #1 resource for news, analysis, commentary, and community discussion on the local real estate market.  This community site is focused on productive discussion of the local housing market, so that everyone involved can work toward a goal of improving understanding and dispelling myths.<\/p>\n<p>Please take a moment to look around the site.  <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/about\/\" title=\"Welcome to Seattle Bubble\">Drop by the About Page<\/a> for a brief summary of what we do.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some recent stories that may interest you if you want to know what&#8217;s going on in today&#8217;s real estate market around Seattle:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/07\/will-higher-government-loan-limits-boost-seattles-market\/\" title=\"Will Higher Government Loan Limits Boost Seattle\u2019s Market?\">Will Higher Government Loan Limits Boost Seattle\u2019s Market?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/nwmls-inventory-skyrocketing-sales-in-the-gutter-still\/\" title=\"NWMLS: Inventory Skyrocketing, Sales in the Gutter (Still)\">NWMLS: Inventory Skyrocketing, Sales in the Gutter (Still)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/11\/february-neighborhood-months-of-supply-update\/\" title=\"February Neighborhood Months of Supply Update\">February Neighborhood Months of Supply Update<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/18\/puget-sound-counties-february-nwmls-update\/\" title=\"Puget Sound Counties February NWMLS Update\">Puget Sound Counties February NWMLS Update<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/17\/100000-price-cuts-in-suburbs-around-seattle\/\" title=\"$100,000+ Price Cuts in Suburbs Around Seattle\">$100,000+ Price Cuts in Suburbs Around Seattle<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for more content that gets to the heart of Seattle&#8217;s real estate market, I recommend you take a look at the following posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/21\/rent-vs-purchase-a-comparison\/\" title=\"Rent vs Purchase: A Comparison\">Rent vs Purchase: A Comparison<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/06\/gangbuster-job-growth-lackluster-incomes\/\" title=\"Gangbuster Job Growth, Lackluster Incomes\">Gangbuster Job Growth, Lackluster Incomes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/25\/big-picture-supply-vs-demand\/\" title=\"Big Picture: Supply vs. Demand\">Big Picture: Supply vs. Demand<\/a><\/li>\n<li>or, if you&#8217;re a number-crunching kind of person, any of the posts in the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/category\/stats\/\" title=\"Seattle Bubble: Stats\">stats category<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For those of you that aren&#8217;t new, and didn&#8217;t catch KING 5 news tonight, I will update this post later with the video clip. For now you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.king5.com\/video\/featured-index.html?nvid=230148\" title=\"KING 5: Honeymoon is over for Seattle-area housing market\">view the video on the KING 5 website here<\/a>.  Check back later tonight or tomorrow morning for an embedded video on this post.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update:<\/strong><\/em> Here&#8217;s the video that I uploaded to YouTube:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px auto; width: 425px; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wq42Yba52dY&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update 2:<\/strong><\/em> Neat, I found out that you can view a noticeably higher-quality version of the YouTube video by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wq42Yba52dY&amp;fmt=18\" title=\"Seattle Bubble on King 5 News 08-03-25: High Quality\">going to this link<\/a>.  Unfortunately I can&#8217;t seem to embed this version without it stretching it vertically.  Oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re viewing this blog for the first time today because you saw me (Tim Ellis) on KING 5 News tonight, I&#8217;d like to take a moment to welcome you. Seattle Bubble is the Seattle area&#8217;s #1 resource for news, analysis, commentary, and community discussion on the local real estate market. 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