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When will housing prices recover? A national look.

Chuck on 03 19, 2010 | No Comments

When will housing prices recover? A national look.

This post is partly a follow on to Ardell's earlier New Bottom Call post and comments on where our greater Seattle / Bellevue area home prices might go over the next few years.   When people ask

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The Unintended Consequences of Growth Management

Chuck on 11 11, 2009 | 14 Comments

A recent interview with Cato Institute Senior Fellow Randal O'Toole brings to light another significant factor in our greater Seattle housing market's recent run up and fall down - the effect of our s

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Big Brokerages – how do they really work, and what’s changing?

Chuck on 07 30, 2009 | No Comments

We started getting into this a bit on my Disappointment Index post, but I think its worth a post and thread of its own. David Losh's comment "Every Brokerage wants you to do it yourself so they can

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How About a ‘Disappointment Index’ for Real Estate

Chuck on 07 27, 2009 | 25 Comments

Tim just posted an interesting set of stats on Redfin, titled Biggest Discounts, and one of them particularly caught my eye.  His primary topic was the difference between Final Listing Price and Sold

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