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I have had a few people ask for this cost v. price study lately, so thought I’d share it again here: http://www.kcmblog.com/2012/03/19/buying-a-home-the-cost-is-more-important-than-the-price/ Perhaps even more relevant to Seattleites when coupled with this, from the Daily Journal of Commerce: KIRKLAND — Limited inventory and falling mortgage rates are driving up the price of houses near job […]

Interesting post re: emotional drivers in residential home sales http://www.kcmblog.com/2012/06/04/the-emotion-driving-the-housing-recovery/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KeepingCurrentMatters+%28The+KCM+Blog%29

Anyone in my world of commerical building sales have any comments on this: “Storrar declined to provide the cap rate. ‘It wasn’t sold on that basis,'” from a Daily Journal of Commerce article on $49M in office building sales just west of I5 near Amazon. Is that another way to say: “It doesn’t make sense […]

Interesting look at foreclosure inventory, particularly because it is human nature to to think “it is bad here” and forget that it might be worse elsewhere. http://www.kcmblog.com/2012/06/01/foreclosure-inventory-highest-lowest-states/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KeepingCurrentMatters+%28The+KCM+Blog%29