Seattle Real Estate
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Seattle fared better the last crash than most of the nation. Took a haircut but as stated well past where it was.
Probably still a bubble now but if you're in for the long term Seattle will be Seattle. Limited room and limited housing keeps prices up generally
I'd probably wait until all this rent and foreclosure moratorium stuff plays out -
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Mail me some fish scalebackthepack said:
I shouldn’t have sold but i took my free trip to Cancun.PostGameOrangeSlices said:
ATOS is going to get there. I have thousands of shares and 15 contracts in this play.Baseman said:
Find more to the moon's that actually get there. HTHPostGameOrangeSlices said:Looking to buy some properties in Medina, Yarrow Point, Kona, and maybe even Aspen. Any message board posters on a football forum have any advice for me?
Either way, ya boy is living the life -
I will. Anything else?PostGameOrangeSlices said:
Mail me some fish scalebackthepack said:
I shouldn’t have sold but i took my free trip to Cancun.PostGameOrangeSlices said:
ATOS is going to get there. I have thousands of shares and 15 contracts in this play.Baseman said:
Find more to the moon's that actually get there. HTHPostGameOrangeSlices said:Looking to buy some properties in Medina, Yarrow Point, Kona, and maybe even Aspen. Any message board posters on a football forum have any advice for me?
Either way, ya boy is living the life -
@SourcesSources said:Looking to buy a house in Seattle (or possibly Bainbridge) - anyone have an educated guess as to whether it's best to wait to buy? Some of the pricing on Zillow looks to be cooling off, but every article I find suggests that things are only continue to go up
The first answer is it's tricky, and it depends. Not what you want to hear.
There is always some seasonal slowing going into the summer. One of the best times to buy is in August as there will be less competition as families are busy getting in their last vaca before school starts. We are also seeing the number of buyers per door go down because they are tired of getting kicked in the nuts over and over. But to be sure, they are still out there just - choosing not to compete.
Thing will continue to go up for the foreseeable future. The one element to this that makes it atypical to a bubble is the sheer amount of cash in the marketplace. Usually in bubbles it's because people are over-leveraged. Not here.
The wildcard to the previous statement is the forbearances and foreclosures stacking up at the banks. While the preliminary numbers sound extraordinarily high, we must remember these are localized to the areas of the working poor and won't necessarily impact the tech-centers.
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Appreciate the input - this is helpful. Homes cost what they cost, I just don't want to throw a bunch of money into something and suddenly I'm 20% underwater. General consensus seems to suggest that Seattle is relatively immune from a major downturn, which gives me some comfort.pawz said:
@SourcesSources said:Looking to buy a house in Seattle (or possibly Bainbridge) - anyone have an educated guess as to whether it's best to wait to buy? Some of the pricing on Zillow looks to be cooling off, but every article I find suggests that things are only continue to go up
The first answer is it's tricky, and it depends. Not what you want to hear.
There is always some seasonal slowing going into the summer. One of the best times to buy is in August as there will be less competition as families are busy getting in their last vaca before school starts. We are also seeing the number of buyers per door go down because they are tired of getting kicked in the nuts over and over. But to be sure, they are still out there just - choosing not to compete.
Thing will continue to go up for the foreseeable future. The one element to this that makes it atypical to a bubble is the sheer amount of cash in the marketplace. Usually in bubbles it's because people are over-leveraged. Not here.
The wildcard to the previous statement is the forbearances and foreclosures stacking up at the banks. While the preliminary numbers sound extraordinarily high, we must remember these are localized to the areas of the working poor and won't necessarily impact the tech-centers.
Hopefully this helps. Please let me know any follow-up questions.
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It wasn't the Taj Mahal but it wasn't a POSYellowSnow said:
My POS Seattle starter house has increased $161,000 since we sold last July. Christ. I hated that fucking house.NEsnake12 said:I bought my first condo in Seattle in December 2019, did a ton of research on the market at the time and felt good about it. And since then the Zillow value of the property has appreciated nearly 30%
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Yes, some hyperbole on my part DJ. It was better than a lot of crummy old houses. But still it was never going to be a happy wife, happy life home.DerekJohnson said:
It wasn't the Taj Mahal but it wasn't a POSYellowSnow said:
My POS Seattle starter house has increased $161,000 since we sold last July. Christ. I hated that fucking house.NEsnake12 said:I bought my first condo in Seattle in December 2019, did a ton of research on the market at the time and felt good about it. And since then the Zillow value of the property has appreciated nearly 30%
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That data is a full year old.NEsnake12 said:Stonks only go up. It’ll probably be a while before the Seattle real estate market cools off, it’s still the fastest growing major city in the country, and the only one on the growth list that doesn’t have a high capacity for new suburban development sprawl.
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A great house though if you were a bachelorYellowSnow said:
Yes, some hyperbole on my part DJ. It was better than a lot of crummy old houses. But still it was never going to be a happy wife, happy life home.DerekJohnson said:
It wasn't the Taj Mahal but it wasn't a POSYellowSnow said:
My POS Seattle starter house has increased $161,000 since we sold last July. Christ. I hated that fucking house.NEsnake12 said:I bought my first condo in Seattle in December 2019, did a ton of research on the market at the time and felt good about it. And since then the Zillow value of the property has appreciated nearly 30%
