By The Tim on July 31, 2009
Back in February while the market’s deep freeze was leading some observers to anxiously declare that we had reached the bottom, here at Seattle Bubble we sliced and diced the market in Bottom-Calling Week. In the series we explored six different analytical methods for predicting when real estate around Seattle would hit “the bottom.” Six [...]
Posted in Features, Statistics | Tagged bottom-calling, inventory, predictions
By The Tim on July 31, 2009
Here is your open thread for the weekend beginning Friday July 31st, 2009. You may post random links and off-topic discussions here. Also, if you have an idea or a topic you’d like to see covered in an article, please make it known. Be sure to also check out the forums, and get your word [...]
Posted in Open Thread | Tagged open_thread
By The Tim on July 30, 2009
Let’s check in (somewhat late) on our now-regular monthly neighborhood update to Seasonally-Adjusted Active Supply (SAAS). For an explanation of what seasonally-adjusted active supply is, please refer to this post. Also, you may view a map of the areas discussed in this post. Yet again, the sweet interactive data visualizations in today’s post come to [...]
Posted in Neighborhoods, Statistics | Tagged graphs, Neighborhoods, NWMLS, SAAS, Statistics, Tableau
By The Tim on July 29, 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. Note that the tiers are determined by sale volume. In other words, 1/3 of all sales fall into each tier. For more details [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged Case-Shiller, Statistics, tiers
By The Tim on July 29, 2009
Okay this is just too funny not to post. Over in my favorite forum thread Detrimental Listing Photos Everett_Tom spotted this gem [update: the listing photo has since been changed—original screenshot here], where the (presumably) brown grass in the listing photo has been extremely poorly painted over in bright green in the only photo on [...]
Posted in Humor | Tagged bad-photos, detrimental-listing-photos, forum, listings, MS Paint, photos, real-actual-listing-photos
By The Tim on July 29, 2009
Here is your open thread for the mid-week on July 29th, 2009. You may post random links and off-topic discussions here. Also, if you have an idea or a topic you’d like to see covered in an article, please make it known. Be sure to also check out the forums, and get your word in [...]
Posted in Open Thread | Tagged open_thread
