aggregated from: Capitol Hill Seattle

If you think your to-do list is long, check out the Seattle City Council's priority list for 2010. It runs 17 items deep. If they're like CHS, they'll get to three of these. Which three are most important to you? We'll take 1, 11 and 15, please. SEAT...

topics: affordability, bicycle, design, development, downtown

aggregated from: Seattle Bubble

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

aggregated from: Seattle Bubble

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

aggregated from: Seattle Bubble

It is time once again for our annual predictions post, where your host goes on record with crazy shots in the dark about what might happen in the Seattle real estate market over the next calendar year. For those of you following along with this game...

topics: affordability, everett, housing, housing-market, neighborhood

aggregated from: Seattle Bubble

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: Western Washington pending home sales mark best December since 2006 H...

topics: affordability, everett, foreclosures, housing, housing-market

aggregated from: Capitol Hill Seattle

Seattle Parking originally uploaded by jaycoxfilmToday is the final day to provide feedback to the Seattle Department of Transportation's proposals to overhaul parking rules around Capitol Hill's historical commercial center -- Broadway. From the add...

topics: affordability, book, capitol-hill, developers, development

aggregated from: Seattle Bubble

The latest issue of Sound Housing Quarterly has been published. Sound Housing Quarterly is a subscription-based sister project to Seattle Bubble. Here are a couple of highlights from the third quarter issue.The Real Estate Heat Index (a proprietary...

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

aggregated from: Capitol Hill Seattle

The Miller Park Community Center played host to the second chance neighborhood planning gathering Thursday night for the Pike/Pine, Central Area, and Capitol Hill Neighborhoods. A very small turnout in June prompted the city to give Pike/Pine and C...

topics: affordability, capitol-hill, central-area, clothing, design

aggregated from: Capitol Hill Seattle

As a small business owner in an obviously challenging economy, I'm always trying to find new and cost-effective ways to let the community know about my business. From email to postcards to in-store referral marketing, it's all about maximizing how ...

topics: affordability, capitol-hill, shopping, store

aggregated from: Seattle's Rain City Real Estate Guide

The graph below shows us how easy it was to spot that the market was going sideways in 2006 and 2007. How credible was it that almost double the amount of people could afford a house for more than $400,000 in 2006 and 2007, than in 2005 and the years...

topics: affordability, housing, housing-market