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Monthly Payment Only $505,654!
No zero-down, subprime loan for this baby! Whoa Nellie! Who needs to spend $100,000,000 ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS to live in Nevada?! Who the heck lives in there? Can you imagine building this for yourself?
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Posted: March 20th, 2007 under General Real Estate.
Tags: real-estate, Trends
Comments: 13
More Seattle Market Analysis
Altos Research shows a flattening market in Seattle and confirms Ardell’s analysis: the high end is (was?) the worst place to be. I’m not signing on to the “bubble proof” theory though.
Posted: November 5th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: altos-research, analysis, Bubble, market, real-estate, Seattle, Trends
Comments: 6
Floor Area Ratios - Bulk and Volume
I attended a meeting this week regarding proposed changes to the current FAR in my neighborhood in Kirkland. I thought I’d report on Kirkland specifically on my blog, but raise the BIG question here. Should neighbors and local governments be able to dictate, beyond height and setbacks, how “big” your home can be?
Is the “argument” really [...]
Posted: April 7th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: Kirkland, property, real-estate, Trends
Comments: 5
Futures and property values: you can bet on the bubble
Last November, Slate magazine posted a piece on the housing market futures. The gist: you can hedge a drop in your house’s property values by buying derivatives that pay if the region’s property values drop a specific amount over a specific time period or even if predicted growth doesn’t materialize:
Next spring, however, investors might finally [...]
Posted: February 27th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: Bubble, insurance, investing, Trends
Comments: 1
New trend for small Condos
One of the newest trends for opening up small condos is to take out the wall between the living room and the bedroom and put in a wall of sliding glass doors. Brings in the light and views, but you have to make your bed!
Posted: February 11th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: Condos, Trends
Comments: none
