2012: The Beginning of a Long Bottom for Housing - Redfin Real Estate News

2012: The Beginning of a Long Bottom for Housing

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Updated on October 6th, 2020

If you’ve bothered reading the real estate section of just about any newspaper or website, you’ve probably seen more bottom calls than you can count from various real estate professionals since the housing market totally fell apart in 2008. So let’s be up front here.

Yes, we are a real estate brokerage. We make our money by helping people buy and sell homes.

And yes, this is another bottom call. Well… sort of.

Did we come here today to tell you that you need to buy a home right now because any day now prices are going to start shooting up again and if you don’t buy today you’ll pay more tomorrow? Hell no.

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Tim Ellis

Tim Ellis has been analyzing the real estate market since 2005, and worked at Redfin as a housing market analyst from 2010 through 2013 and again starting in 2018. In his free time, he runs the independently-operated Seattle-area real estate website Seattle Bubble, and produces the "Dispatches from the Multiverse" improvised comedy sci-fi podcast.

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