This morning on National Public Radio, Steve Inskeep interviewed Roger Lowenstein about the economy and the housing market. Roger Lowenstein, the author of The Origins of The Crash: The Great Bubble, a book about the Wall Street crash of the 1990′s, has written an article which will be in Sunday’s New York Times magazine about…Read More »
The Puget Sound area is hopping this weekend with events ranging from Bumbershoot to a Jazz Festival in Anacortes to the Barnum and Bailey Circus in Everett.If you are looking for something a little less hectic to do, you can play “tourist,” and check out Snoqualmie Falls. The falls are quite spectacular. I was out…Read More »
For my last thoughts on the Real Estate Connect conference, Connect SF, here are some of the trends we should expect to see in real estate. Many of these trends are already here and becoming part of the very social fabric of our lives, not just in real estate. A case in point: In the…Read More »
You have worked for weeks getting your home ready. You’ve had your garage sale and you’ve been packing up and decluttering your home. It’s been painted, recarpeted. It looks so great, you wonder why you never did all these things before. You wonder why you are moving, except commuting to NYC for work from Seattle…Read More »
Sellers had a 36% chance of selling a condo on Seattle’s Eastside in July of 2007. (information obtained from MLS and Windermere charts) July, 2007 918 condos for sale, 332 sales, 36% chance of selling a condo. June, 2007 840 condos for sale, 382 sales, 45% chance of selling a condo. July, 2006 554 condos…Read More »
The chances of selling a home on the Eastside in July of July 2007 ranged from a low of 18% to a high of 33%. All of the areas experienced a decline in the chances of selling a home.The plateau: Sammamish, Issaquah, North Bend and Fall City Sellers had a 21% chance of getting a…Read More »
Sellers had a 25% chance of getting their homes sold. Here are the numbers for single family residences: For complete year-to-date data, you can review these charts. This month, July, 2007: 3235 homes available, 773 homes sold, 25% chance of selling. Last month, June, 2007: 3107 homes available, 841 homes sold, 27% chance of selling.…Read More »
Back to a few more articles on Connect SF, Real Estate Connect in San Francisco. Connect SF was great, but nothing was more fun and interesting than the keynote speaker, Hugh MacLeod. Hugh is a cartoonist, humorist, and viral marketer extraordinaire. He has a website called gapingvoid.com. One of his jobs is marketing wine for…Read More »
Meet Henry…… and think about adopting a dog. (Okay, I admit this article has nothing to do with real estate and I swore I would only write articles about real estate statistics, information and trends, area information, etc. But it has been a long day at the computer looking at July stats so I thought…Read More »
We all know the Seattle/Eastside market is and continues to be a very expensive place to live, however, it is all relative. I met my client today who is moving back to London for a good-bye lunch. We had lunch at Yarrow Bay Cafe on Lake Washington for her “last meal” in The States. She…Read More »