{"id":95445,"date":"2017-02-15T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=95445"},"modified":"2019-03-13T01:06:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T08:06:04","slug":"20170215-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20170215-01\/?p=95445","title":{"rendered":"Man, this housing downturn is hitting everyone, follow-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2008, I remarked on a house for sale on Mercer Island, described in the original listing as <a HREF=\"http:\/\/bing.com\/search?q=22799+square+feet+in+square+meters\">22,000 square-foot<\/a>, having five bedrooms, nine bathrooms, two swimming pools, and a place to park your <a HREF=\"http:\/\/bing.com\/search?q=140+feet+in+meters\">140-foot<\/a> yacht. At the time, it was <a HREF=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=20463\">marked down to $35 million from $40 million<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The house was eventually sold in 2010 for <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/WA\/Mercer-Island\/1631-Roanoke-Way-98040\/home\/254053\">$12 million<\/a>, less than a third of the original asking price. Here&#8217;s <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/homes\/for_sale\/49034472_zpid\/\">another view<\/a>. (Note also that the official records don&#8217;t agree with what was claimed in the listing. As a general rule, never believe anything a real estate agent tells you.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down we go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-95445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Down we go.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}