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It s time once again for the monthly reporting roundup, where you can read my wry commentary about the news instead of subjecting yourself to boring rehashes of the NWMLS press release (or in addition to, if that s what floats your boat).First up, le...

topics: everett, housing, housing-market, mls, mortgage

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Talk about the global and national economy to your heart s content, as much as it takes to get it out of your system so the rest of the site can stick to real estate and housing.As of 09/07/2010, global economic comments that do not directly relate t...

topics: housing, real-estate

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August market stats have been published by the NWMLS on Friday. It s rather unusual that they would release the stats so early in the month, but maybe they figured since the cat is out of the bag on their bogus methodology already anyway, they would...

topics: housing, housing-market, mls, mortgage

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I couldn't agree more. @CalculatedRisk There should be no further housing tax credits. http://bit.ly/cuuF7F #Did you consider buying a home earlier this year, but decided not to 4 fear that prices will plummet again? Contact me 4 an AP story! #Nic...

topics: housing, real-estate

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As a coworker and I were pondering the housing market yesterday, I wondered whether it would be possible to build a computer simulation that would provide a relatively accurate model of a perfectly efficient housing market. Unfortunately we didn t c...

topics: development, housing, housing-market, mortgage, real-estate

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With August in the rear view mirror, it s time for another monthly 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 and Snohomish County Records. If you hav...

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Apparently there are some in the government who feel like they haven t done enough yet to help the housing market, because Calculated Risk had a great post yesterday on the subject of a possible return of the undead tax credit.From Reuters: No Deci...

topics: housing, housing-market

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Seattle: Still super special!!! http://is.gd/evHSV #Impressive use of a very small space in this 182 sqft Seattle condo. http://is.gd/evJco (@MattGoyer check this out!) #Big Burien condo project may not foreclose after all: http://is.gd/evMMS # Housi...

topics: condo, developers, housing, housing-market, real-estate

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I was playing around with the sales data I ve downloaded since April of last year when I noticed a noteworthy trend in the sales of new construction. If you split each month s sales into new construction and re-sales, then look at the median prices ...

topics: developers, housing, housing-market

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I recorded an interview with KIRO news radio yesterday that might be of some interest. The days of buying a house for profit may be gone[See post to listen to audio]An excerpt:If you re looking for an investment, consider stocks and bonds, coins or c...

topics: housing, real-estate