By The Tim on February 28, 2009
Great visualization of the mess we’re in. The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
Posted in Audio & Video | Tagged credit, depression, recession, video
By The Tim on February 27, 2009
Yesterday’s conversation in the comments touched a little bit on homes that are being delisted (taken off the market without selling), so now seems like a good time to post another update to the listings and sales breakdown chart. Below is the breakdown of homes on the market and homes that went off the market [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged delisting, inventory, NWMLS, relisting, sales, stale listings
By The Tim on February 26, 2009
Just a brief reminder that the community-driven town hall discussion “No News is Bad News: Seattle As a No-Newspaper Town?” is happening tonight at 7:00 PM in the Bertha Landes Room at Seattle’s City Hall. What it is: A free, community discussion to discuss the future of journalism and news media in the Seattle area. [...]
Posted in News | Tagged NNBN, Seattle_PI, Seattle_Times
By The Tim on February 26, 2009
This is coming later than usual this month due to Bottom-Calling Week, but let’s take a look at January’s “Months of Supply” for the 30 NWMLS areas in King County. For an explanation of what months of supply means, please refer to the original neighborhood MOS breakdown post. Also, view a map of these areas [...]
Posted in Neighborhoods, Statistics | Tagged graphs, months of supply, Neighborhoods, NWMLS, Statistics
By The Tim on February 25, 2009
Let’s check out the three price tiers for the Seattle area, as measured by Case-Shiller. Remember, Case-Shiller’s “Seattle” data is based on single-family home repeat sales in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties. First up is the straight graph of the index from January 2000 through December 2008. December was downright rough in all three tiers, [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged Case-Shiller, Statistics, tiers
By The Tim on February 24, 2009
The time has come for our regularly scheduled monthly check on the Case-Shiller Home Price Index. According to December data, Down 3.6% November to December. Down 13.4% YOY. Down 16.7% from the July 2007 peak Last year prices fell 1.2% from November to December and year-over-year prices were up 0.5%. It’s interesting to look at [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged behind the cycle, California, Case-Shiller, graphs, Statistics
