Re:Take is a weekly look at the Emerald City now and in days of yore through photos dug out of the city archives. This week Seattle's arterials clog with 40k pounds of bacon. more ›

Re:Take is a weekly look at the Emerald City now and in days of yore through photos dug out of the city archives. This week we shop for good deals at the Pike Place Market. more ›

Seattle Bubble sees a flatline, more or less, for housing prices since this March, with a loss of 22 percent off the price peak. So the question you have to ask yourself is, is this the moment when the hero pulls himself up over the edge of the cliff and dusts himself off...or is this the moment when the branch that stopped his fall pulls loose? Barring more economic shocks, we lean towards a slow recovery. But economic shocks aren't really barred, so long as Boeing is still thrashing around, trying to get its new plane to fly. more ›

Seattle Bubble directed us to this Bloomberg article the Seattle Times picked up suggesting there might be a "lost generation" of U.S. home values. Baby boomers are downsizing and it's "unlikely that Generation X, born between 1965 and 1976 (or more derisively called 'baby busters'), will bid up home prices. They are only 44 million strong, not as wealthy and even more in debt from college loans." On the bright side, there's probably never been an easier time to buy an apartment near Green Lake. more ›

This morning, Cindy Zetts, the Seattle Times real estate editor, decided to head for greener pastures, which seems to say something not good about both the real estate market and the Seattle Times. It's a kind of Black Friday Remix over there, as reporters make long walks into management offices. At the Times, the involuntary staff exodus shows no signs of abating--management keeps talking about belt-tightening but without giving any sense of where the last notch on the belt might be. And as the Seattle Bubble points out (with a sadly hilarious "bottom-calling" graph), the Seattle real estate market's bottom is proving to be elusive. more ›