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Tim Ellis is the founder of Seattle Bubble. His background in engineering and computer / internet technology, a fondness of data-based analysis of problems, and an addiction to spreadsheets all influence his perspective on the Seattle-area real estate market.

25 responses to “NWMLS King County Area Map”

  1. Greg Perry

    Nice job, Tim. Well done!
    Of course, you’ll want to insert the area numbers.

    I think you can have fun with these. Simple 3 color heat maps (Seller/Balanced/Buyer markets) are some of the most effective tools I have for assisting clients (especially Sellers) understand shifting market dynamics. They take the mountain of numbers and reduce them to an effective visual that are very easy to understand.

    Once you get the map the way you want it, consider making it a JPEG so the overlay doesn’t have to load.

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  2. Greg Perry

    Man those eastern Eastside KC areas are huge……..

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  3. AndyMiami

    People..all you, please contribute. I finally did..whatever you can afford. What Tim has created has hopefully saved many on this website/blog..many dollars.

    Great work Tim…

    AndyMiami

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  4. WaileaKid

    Nice wok. Can you please use live maps instead? I hate GMaps. They are tough to navigate.

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  5. deeplennon

    Looks purdy tim. My biggest request would be to ad SnoCo areas if you have access to their specific boundaries. I’ve never seen a map for them before.

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  6. Cascadian

    I live in the King County part of Bothell, and I notice that it’s not included in your map. Is there not a breakout area for Bothell, or are we included in Snohomish County despite our location?

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  7. brettro

    love it! Maybe in the box that pops up when you click on an area the most recent stats can be displayed- yoy price changes, median price, inventory if data is available at that level. Maybe even in graph form, if possible.

    Another idea is to have an overlay that changes the colors of the area based on the criteria i mentioned. This would give people a very quick snapshot of what areas are hurting the most, and which ones are weathering the storm better than the rest.

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  8. brettro

    oops looks like Greg already mentioned one of my ideas

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  9. Nell Plotts

    Because almost all Bainbridge residents commute to Seattle please add that area, if possible.

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  10. singliac

    I think that’s the first time I’ve ever heard anyone prefer “live maps” to “google maps.” I forget that I’m in microsoft country. Then we can listen to Seattlebubble podcasts on our Zunes! Haha!

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  11. softwarengineer

    WHERE’S THE BUY ONE HOME, GET ONE FREE SECTION ON THE MAP OF NORTH LA (SEATTLE)?

    See the proof:

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laland/2008/06/in-escondido-bu.html

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  12. Nathan

    The outline of the “urban” areas vaguely remind me of Mecklenburg County in yet another strange Seattle-Charlotte dynamic.
    http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncmeckle/meck2001.jpg

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  13. Everett_Tom

    Nice work!

    it might be fun to map the “Audacious Flips and Renovations” on this map…

    you know, some of the underlying code to drive features like that might be worthy of a source forge project.. I suspect there’s quite a few programmers in the ranks…

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  14. laxtosnoco

    Tim, where did you get the boundaries for the different MLS areas?

    Did you eyeball them based on a physical map or did you get an electronic boundary file from somewhere? I’ve tinkered with GIS maps in the past and would like to be able to this using GIS software.

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  15. Ric Cox

    Tim,
    Which of the areas comprise Seattle proper? Does anyone run the numbers each month for condos in Seattle? We’d like to add them to our national Condo Market widget.,

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  16. Garth

    Tim,

    Are some zip codes split into two areas?

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  17. Garth

    That is horrible, I figured they were at most a couple zips each, and there is a great free dataset available from the census for zip code boundaries.

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  18. mark

    Great job overall.

    The popup area numbers are a pain because you have to click each one to find the one you want. It w/b better to just print them on the map.

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