BY FROMA HARROP Not Seattle! Home prices in the “Queen City” of the Northwest were not supposed to go south. This isn’t Miami, Phoenix or Las Vegas, where suntanned speculators built big, borrowed big and went bust with a bang. Yet just as the bubble markets seem to be settling [though on a still sandy bottom], property owners in formerly confident places like Seattle, Minneapolis and Atlanta are seeing their own late-in-the-downturn downturn. Seattle home […]

Federal Policies Skew House Values Everywhere
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