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NYT On Seattle Condos

November 22nd, 2008 · Comments

From 36 Hours in Seattle:

Condo developers have carved many of Seattle’s quirky neighborhoods into bland real estate listings.

The NYT also had an article a while back on “real” lofts that I forgot to link to. Here it is, The Primal Loft.
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NYT on Amazon move to SLU

January 9th, 2008 · Comments

Today the New York Times has an article on Amazon’s move to South Lake Union, Amazon Consolidates in Growing Area of Seattle:

If Amazon exercises all of its options, it may spend as much as $1.5 billion under a 16-year agreement to lease 11 buildings in South Lake Union, a lakefront neighborhood a little more than [...]

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His and her bedrooms

March 11th, 2007 · Comments

The New York Times recently ran an article on the how more and more couples are sleeping apart, To Have, Hold and Cherish, Until Bedtime, and they mentioned Escala as a development catering to this not so niche market:

At Escala, a condominium project in Seattle, a quarter of the 270 units have double master bedrooms, [...]

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When will the subprime market collapse?

February 18th, 2007 · Comments

This article is for commentor EconE, unfortunately it is for NY Times subscribers only, Will Other Mortgage Dominoes Fall? (though someone re-published it online.) It looks at the subprime and Alt-A markets.

It’s amazing how long it can take ivnestors to see that the wheels are coming off a prized investment vehicle. Denail, after all, is [...]

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Housing Futures – Way to protect against the bubble?

September 14th, 2006 · Comments

I’m surprised I haven’t seen this article discussed by the local housing blogs (Seattle Bubble / Rain City).. Anyhow, this past weekend the Sunday New York Times had a real estate magazine and one of the articles was on the introduction of housing futures, The Pork-Bellies Approach to Housing. Now I had a hard time [...]

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