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Local Real Estate Insiders Brainstorm the Market

By The Tim on March 18, 2010 | 9 Responses

I’ll be spending all day today and tomorrow attending a pair of local real estate events. Today is the Pacific Northwest Housing Summit, at which a distinguished panel of industry insiders will be discussing the current market, the future of the market, and probably a bunch of sales tactics for sellers of various real [...]

Posted in Local, News | Tagged industry insiders, PNWHS, REBarCamp | 9 Responses

Puget Sound Counties Interactive February Update

By The Tim on March 17, 2010 | 20 Responses

Let’s take a look at February NWMLS statistics from around the sound. As usual, courtesy Tableau Software (available free to use online), the Around the Sound update is rocking sweet interactive data visualizations.
Feel free to download the old charts in Excel 2007 and Excel 2003 format. To get specific info about a certain [...]

Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged around-the-sound, graphs, inventory, King_County, Kitsap, NWMLS, Pierce, SAAS, sales, Skagit, Snohomish, Statistics, Tableau, Thurston, Whatcom | 20 Responses

Where the Jobs Are (and Aren’t), February 2010

By The Tim on March 16, 2010 | 22 Responses

Since February employment numbers were just recently released here in Washington State, let’s check in again on the jobs situation around Seattle, courtesy of data from the Washington State Employment Security Department. The style of most of these charts are stolen from the excellent San Diego housing reporter Rich Toscano.
First up, here’s a two-year [...]

Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged Jobs, job_growth, unemployment, where-the-jobs-are | 22 Responses

Buyers Getting More House for Their Money Even as Median Prices Rise

By The Tim on March 15, 2010 | 33 Responses

In our conversation last week about median prices, David Losh brought up an interesting question:
It would be interesting to see what the median price buys you this year compared to last year, or the year before.
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Posted in Neighborhoods, Statistics | Tagged anecdote, median, Neighborhoods, NWMLS, Statistics | 33 Responses

Poll: The best deals around Seattle right now are mostly…

By The Tim on March 14, 2010 | 8 Responses

Click “continue reading” below or use the sidebar to vote in this poll.

Posted in Polls | Tagged Polls | 8 Responses

Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2010-03-13

By The Tim on March 13, 2010 | 4 Responses

Estimated 15% of Seattle mortgage holders underwater: http://is.gd/9YpKo #
Seattle is #1 again! (for the biggest rental price drops) http://is.gd/9Ytun [spotted by reader 'see it clearly'] #
RT @calculatedrisk: Shiller: Homeownership and American Culture http://bit.ly/9guSou #
2005: Weyerhaeuser buys Federal Way building for $21 million. 2010: They sell it for $8.2 million. http://is.gd/9ZZaW #
Ray Pepper succeeds in getting [...]

Posted in News | Tagged link_roundup, Twitter | 4 Responses