Boo-Hoo: Tighter Standards Help Kill Chances of Bubble Returning - Seattle Bubble

Boo-Hoo: Tighter Standards Help Kill Chances of Bubble Returning

aggregated from: Seattle Bubble

I'm starting to sense something of a theme in some recent news pieces about the housing market. Consider the following quotes from two recent articles (emphasis mine).Reuters, June 22: Two U.S. Democratic lawmakers want Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to relax recently tightened standards for mortgages on new condominiums, saying they could threaten the viability of some developments and slow the housing-market recovery, the Wall Street Journal said.SeattlePI.com, June 25:Are new appraisal rules hol...

aggregated: 32 weeks 4 days ago | 20 views

topics: foreclosures, housing, housing-market, neighborhood, real-estate

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Sound Transit wants light rail housing, retail development feedback but what will they do with it?

aggregated from: Capitol Hill Seattle

Sound Transit is not only charged with building light rail tunnels and the Capitol Hill station in the ground along Broadway between Denny and John. By 2016, they will have also developed the area into a transportation, housing and retail center on s...

aggregated: 32 weeks 6 days ago | 18 views

topics: bakery, capitol-hill, design, development, housing

The Consequences of a Market Full of Monthly Payment Buyers

aggregated from: Seattle Bubble

Here's a brief quote from a post that appeared here in 2006 titled The Monthly Payment Buyer:In my opinion, it's no wonder that home prices have gotten so out of whack with true fundamentals, when the first question someone asks in the home buying pr...

aggregated: 34 weeks 3 days ago | 21 views

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

Other Mayoral Candidates Weigh in on Housing Levy, Picket Lines, and More

aggregated from: Daily Weekly

The City Council just voted to send a $145 million housing levy to the voters. This is the amount proposed by Greg Nickels; Council President Richard Conlin wanted more, while Nickels challenger Jan D... Continue reading Other Mayoral Candid...

aggregated: 33 weeks 6 days ago | 16 views

topics: city-council

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