Seattle Bubble

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You've heard these stereotypes about renting, circulated by people and organizations with a financial interest in selling you a mortgage: Renting is for poor people. and, Renters don't get involv...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/05/tired-stereotypes-about-renters.html

Just a quick note to point out that Seattle's riverside neighbor to the south—Portland—has its own housing bubble blog: Portland Housing Blog . Drop on by and leave Clint a comment or two. ...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/05/new-housing-bubble-blog-portland.html

First quarter data has been released by the WCRER . There's not much new information about King County that isn't already in the Seattle Bubble spreadsheet , but it's worth noting anyway since th...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/05/wcrer-affordability-still-at-record.html

April foreclosure stats from RealtyTrac have been released. No surprise: area foreclosures still on the rise . > More Seattle-area homeowners are facing foreclosures this month, but > ...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/05/king-county-foreclosures-keep-rising.html

Either this report is a fabrication, or the guys in question haven't been clued in to how special Seattle is... > Construction workers from across the country came to the Cedar Rim >...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/05/wanted-construction-job-in-seattle.html

Here's yet another boilerplate national real estate article rah-rah'ing Seattle's apparent resilience : > Amid all the news of plummeting national housing numbers, the > premise stil...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/05/ringing-ka-ching-from-house-in-seattle.html

Check out this delightful piece from today's Wall Street Journal: Where home prices are hot now > The housing news isn't all grim. Even as prices sag nationwide, > there are sever...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/05/prices-in-seattle-still-hot-hot-hot.html

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 mos...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/05/april-reporting-roundup.html

It's time for April statistics from the NWMLS. King County SFH summary: April 2007 Active Listings: up 38% YOY Pending Sales: down 10% YOY Median Closed Price: $465,000, up 11% YOY Sales contin...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/05/listings-way-up-sales-continue-descent.html

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 ...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-clients-dont-have-any-money.html

Problem: Housing in the Seattle area is too expensive. Government solution: Artificially inflate the buyer pool by throwing millions in government loans at the problem . > Seattle will soon ...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/05/throw-more-money-at-problem.html

Thanks to the cessation of daily open thread posts during and after my recent vacation, participation in the forums has really taken off. However, when I announced on Monday that I would cease...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/05/to-open-thread-or-not-to-open-thread.html

Finally some semi-useful information out of Dupre + Scott. Mr. Cohen reports on the "1-19 Unit Report " just released by Dupre + Scott in this terrifying tale of skyrocketing rents and plummeting...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/05/renting-in-seattle-may-make-economic.html

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: Sea...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/04/vacation-link-roundup.html

Click here to go to the forums. I'll be on vacation with little to no Internet access through the 28th, so I likely won't be making new posts during that time. This includes open thread posts. ...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/04/on-vacation-check-forums.html

Reporter Aubrey Cohen and the Seattle PI are at it again , this time pimping new development in Columbia City. > A Seattle developer has proposed a mixed-use project in Columbia > Cit...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/04/developers-developers-developers.html

Local mortgage giant Washington Mutual has been in the news quite a bit the last few days. On Tuesday, Seattle Times business reporter Amy Martinez made the (not-so-bold) prediction that WaMu won...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/04/wamu-trying-to-cope-with-slowdown.html

If I were the egocentric type, I'd probably think that none other than the P-I's Bill Virgin is a Seattle Bubble reader. A mere five days after I dispelled the notion that Seattle is "world class...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/04/world-class-means-more-than-merely.html

Comments like this one crack me up: > I am not sure what I have stumbled in on. This is the first time > I've seen this blog. It seems as though this site is a place...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/04/drive-by-commenting.html

In what is becoming a bit of a regular occurrence , Seattle's #1 real estate cheerleader yet again wields her powers of misdirection in response to a probing reader question. > Q: There is�...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/04/misdirection-master-strikes-again.html

Ah, the joys condodebtorship . > When Jerry O'Leary, 54 and retired, put down over $100,000 dollars > toward a new million-dollar condominium in February 2005, he thought >�...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/04/vulcan-rediculous.html

My car is so great. It has a built-in CD player, a driver's seat with four independent adjustments, a tasteful spoiler, a spacious trunk, climate control, a powered sunroof, and gets over 30 mile...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/04/on-luxury-cars-and-world-class-cities.html

Couched in the mind-numbing bubbly language of a press release from Default Research comes this tidbit of information: > "Foreclosures increased by 27 percent in the Seattle area. Tha...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/04/king-county-foreclosures-up-27-yoy.html

There have been a lot of real estate articles in the local dead tree outlets the last few days. It's time for another link roundup before I get too far behind and forget to mention some of them. ...

http://seattlebubble.blogspot.com/2007/04/bubble-link-roundup_10.html