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Bubble blog roundup
Good news for people who like bad news:
The Housing Bubble Blog (formerly housingbubble2)
Bubble Track (blog)
Bubble Meter (blog)
Housing Bubble (blog) - Apparently Housing Bubble’s last entry in September was so exhausting that they gave up or they declared victory - you decide.
Seattle bubble (blog) - a much longer list of bubble sites here
And a couple [...]
Posted: April 29th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: Bubble, housing, Seattle
Comments: 32
Are We Brewing A Bubble In Seattle?
Probably the most frequent single question I get as a realtor from my friends and clients and contacts is “Are we in a real estate bubble?” Natural question. First because around here we got beat up pretty bad in the crash of the tech bubble. And second because there are a number [...]
Posted: April 28th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: Bellevue, Bubble, housing, Kirkland, Mercer-Island, Microsoft, real-estate, Redmond
Comments: 24
Can Real Estate ever ‘Bust’?
Last week an investor called me from LA who is a stock broker. Our conversation got me thinking about the rich investment opportunity real estate provides, in spite of all the talk of a bubble burst. I’ve played the stock market for years and have won some and lost some but I’ve never been able [...]
Posted: March 27th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: Bubble, housing, Investment, real-estate
Comments: 16
New-home sales take a tumble
The Seattle Times reports that new home sales are dropping nationally:
New-home sales fell by the biggest amount in almost nine years last month while home prices declined for a fourth straight month, raising concerns that the once high-flying housing market could be in for a rougher-than-expected landing.
The Commerce Department reported Friday that sales of [...]
Posted: March 25th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: housing, national, News, values
Comments: 10
Keeping Real Estate Entertaining…
David A. Smith, founder of the Affordable Housing Institute, has a great blog that is loaded with articles that are both interesting and informative (is that possible?). In terms of readability, his posts are up there with grow-a-brain except David keeps more focused on real estate.
He posts on a wide variety of [...]
Posted: September 29th, 2005 under Diversions.
Tags: affordable-housing, blogs, Diversions, entertainment, housing, News, politics, real-estate, world
Comments: 2
Rising tide lifts all ships…
Who benefits when housing prices rise? The sellers, of course… But also the local governments though increased property tax revenue. The Seattle PI has an article on how the mayor of Seattle has $15 million to spread around thanks to rising home prices:
In 2000 the average value of a residence in Seattle was [...]
Posted: September 28th, 2005 under General Real Estate, Seattle.
Tags: housing, Local-News, News, prices, Seattle
Comments: none
Bubble Talk
This might sound strange coming from a real estate blogger, but I just don’t find all the hype about a real estate bubble all that interesting. None the less, it seems that about once a week a new blog starts up with the mission to highlight all the “evidence” that there is a nationwide real [...]
Posted: August 21st, 2005 under Seller Information.
Tags: Bubble, Buyer-Information, housing, housing-bubble, listings, News, real-estate, Seattle, Seller-Information
Comments: 13
