{"id":4280,"date":"2009-02-13T10:42:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T18:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=4280"},"modified":"2009-02-13T10:42:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T18:42:09","slug":"friday-link-roundup-slow-sales-foreclosures-deceptive-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/13\/friday-link-roundup-slow-sales-foreclosures-deceptive-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Link Roundup: Slow Sales, Foreclosures, Deceptive Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got a bunch of things to share with everybody that have built up over the past week, so let&#8217;s just get right into it.<\/p>\n<p>First up, a couple of stories that take a look at the big picture local numbers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Aubrey Cohen, Seattle P-I: <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/business\/399873_homeprices13.html\" title=\"Washington sees nation's largest drop in sales\">Washington sees nation&#8217;s largest drop in sales<\/a><br \/>\nPatricia Murphy, KUOW: <a href=\"http:\/\/kuow.org\/program.php?id=16901\" title=\"Bad Real Estate Numbers\">Bad Real Estate Numbers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next, a somewhat extreme anecdote to go along with the recent foreclosure stats:<\/p>\n<p>Rolf Boone, The Olympian: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewstribune.com\/updates\/story\/625068.html\" title=\"57 single-family lots in foreclosure in Lacey subdivision\">57 single-family lots in foreclosure in Lacey subdivision<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure this piece will be interesting to regular readers here, as well.  Aubrey takes a closer look at the north Seattle neighborhoods that <em>seem <\/em>to be the most resilient when we run <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/tag\/months-of-supply\/\" title=\"Tag: Months of Supply\">the monthly neighborhood months of supply updates<\/a>.  The conclusion seems to be that despite the apparent strength, north Seattle isn&#8217;t much of a party for sellers.<\/p>\n<p>Aubrey Cohen, Seattle P-I: <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/business\/399922_sellers13.html\" title=\"The stats say North Seattle is still a seller's market, even if nobody agrees\">The stats say North Seattle is still a seller&#8217;s market, even if nobody agrees<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lastly, here&#8217;s a couple of national pieces that have been brought up recently by a lot of people, including an NPR segment featuring Jill Keto, who <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/10\/to-buy-or-rent-not-just-an-emotional-decision\/\" title=\"To Buy or Rent - Not Just an Emotional Decision\">you may recall from a January Seattle Times article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Olney, NPR: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/news\/programs\/tp\/tp090211homeownership_and_th\" title=\"Homeownership and the American Dream\">Homeownership and the American Dream<\/a><br \/>\nJames Jacoby and Jill Landes, CNBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/29163182\/\" title=\"CNBC Special Report: House of Cards\">CNBC Special Report: House of Cards<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got a bunch of things to share with everybody that have built up over the past week, so let&#8217;s just get right into it. First up, a couple of stories that take a look at the big picture local numbers&#8230; Aubrey Cohen, Seattle P-I: Washington sees nation&#8217;s largest drop in sales Patricia Murphy, KUOW: Bad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[198],"tags":[106,122,18,7,281,296,103,19,1116],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-boone","tag-cnbc","tag-cohen","tag-foreclosures","tag-kuow","tag-npr","tag-olympian","tag-seattle_pi","tag-wcrer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Friday Link Roundup: Slow Sales, Foreclosures, Deceptive Stats \u2022 Seattle Bubble<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/13\/friday-link-roundup-slow-sales-foreclosures-deceptive-stats\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Friday Link Roundup: Slow Sales, Foreclosures, Deceptive Stats \u2022 Seattle Bubble\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Got a bunch of things to share with everybody that have built up over the past week, so let&#8217;s just get right into it. 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