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[Lake Hills Renter]

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[ayles]

Reminds me of my twice daily drive down Market Street in Ballard. Recently 4 or 5 for for sale signs of have cropped up heading east. I think they are all on the N. side of the street.

in addition to that in the last week two houses across (next door to each other) from mine have gone up for sale. One has been sitting empty for a while and the sign was only up for a couple days. The other (nicer of the two) has had a sign for a little over a week.

[Lake Hills Renter]

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[Lake Hills Renter]

[Lake Hills Renter]

I finally broke down and looked up the house that's been . I can see why now -- $550k?! Good god, that's outrageous. And that "103 days" may be how long it's been on Redfin, but I've been looking at the John L Scott sign for 2 years on my way to work.

Ironically, the day I posted the previous item about not seeing a winter inventory decline, the inventory started to decline. Several sgns came down without fanfare, and 1 or 2 of the condos actually found GFs. There's probably only 4 or 5 for sale now, from memory.

[Markor]

[Lake Hills Renter]

[Lake Hills Renter]

New record: 15 for sale signs in my 3 mile commute.

[garth]

I drive from maple leaf to the ship canal by the ballard bridge. Most houses seem to be turning over, but one group of houses on 80th has been cracking me up. This house has a real estate sign up:

http://www.redfin.com/WA/Seattle/729-N- ... ome/301345

The houses on either side are posting up for sale signs they bought at fred meyer offering a better deal than the realtor sign.

For a long time I was continuously surprised that lot size seemed to matter little on houses ~$500,000, but these 3000 sq ft lots are going for much less now. That house sold for $445,000 in march of 2007.