Announcing the Seattle Condo Market Trends Page
Ever wish you could see a whole lotta Seattle condo stats and charts in one place. Well look no further, I've put a page choc full of charts for all the [...]
July Seattle Condo Market Update
June numbers are in. My thoughts: The free fall appears to have ended in March 2009 when pending sales were about half of March 2008. Since then (April, May, and June [...]
Seattle Condo Owners
With the market still pretty slow for sellers, lots of folks are facing the classic rent or sell question. What do you think they should do? Should condo investment owners sell [...]
Seattle Condo market: Bottom, anyone?
Couldn't help but notice a nice shape starting to form in Altos Research's median price chart. Hard to say if this is a blip or if it's the end [...]
It’s only a bear market if you’re downsizing…
One of the mathematical realities is that when real estate prices have come down like they have here, you can often take advantage. Here are some of the key drivers and [...]
When will we hit bottom? How will the recovery look when it happens?
More and more economists in the national media are predicting the bottom for the US real estate market overall at the end of the year. What do you think lies ahead [...]
Zandi “very confident” we’ll hit bottom for end of 2009
Zandi sketched out his "timeline to recovery," which sounds fairly optimistic. The stock market bottomed out in the first three months of 2009, he believes. (He'd originally expected this to happen [...]
March 2009 Seattle Condo Market Stats
The March statistics are out. Are they looking as sunny as the weather we have been getting the last few days? Here is a quick look: Months of inventoryMonths [...]
February 2009 Seattle Condo Market Stats
So the February 2009 numbers are in. If you were hoping to find encouraging news, maybe March will look better. I find year over year comparisons to be less useful these [...]
Housing Rescue Plan
President Obama announced the Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan today. Under the plan, many homeowners whose loan-to-value ratio was previously too high to refinance will now become eligible to refinance their [...]