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Yesterday a reader asked:I was wondering if you could write a post sometime on the relationship between interest rates and home prices (or direct me to a previous post if you ve already done this). My husband is feeling pressured to buy a home within...

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I was digging around in the Snohomish County public records and I came across this interesting property history. Original purchase price is unknown, but records indicate that the serial refinancer owned the property since at least 1976.DateDocumentA...

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Banks continuing construction in developments foreclosed from builders http://is.gd/7rltV #Escala, condo complex that announced higher prices as the bubble burst now dropping prices http://is.gd/7smaa (3rd story) #Glenn Kelman, Redfin CEO: people ...

topics: belltown, condo, housing, real-estate

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Time for the monthly reporting roundup, where I read all the local paper rehashes of the NWMLS press release so you don t have to.Here s a link to this month s NWMLS press release: Northwest MLS members report 28 percent increase in pending sales fro...

topics: affordability, everett, foreclosures, mls, neighborhood

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April 2008: Raising Prices to Entice Buyers wait, what? (Awesome plan, Escala!)Developer Lexas Cos. said this week that on June 5 it will raise the asking prices 3 to 7 percent for about 70 unsold units that have been on the market since last sprin...

topics: condo, condos, developer, developers, downtown

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Now that the last month of 2009 is behind us, let s have a look at January s stats preview. Most of the charts below are based on broad county-wide data that is available through a simple search of King County Records. If you have additional stats ...

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With the failure of American Marine Bank on Bainbridge Island becoming Washington State s third bank failure of 2010 on Friday, I thought it would be interesting to take another look at our state s troubled banks.The following charts are based on dat...

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Oops, something went wrong with today's weekly Twitter roundup post that was preventing comments. It should be fixed now. #via the PSBJ: Downtown's strange new real estate map (buildings currently under construction in downtown Seattle) http://is.gd/...

topics: cascade, downtown, everett, housing, lynnwood

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J.D. Roth over at Get Rich Slowly put up a post Wednesday about renting vs. buying, sort of a follow-up to my 2007 post over there. In it, he said that he couldn t find any info on current price-to-rent ratios around the country, so I thought I woul...

topics: mortgage, neighborhoods

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The latest issue of Sound Housing Quarterly has been published (Q4 2009). Sound Housing Quarterly is a subscription-based sister project to Seattle Bubble.With this latest release we have made a few notable changes. First and probably most interesti...

topics: affordability, housing, housing-market, real-estate