By The Tim on May 20, 2013
NOTE: If you are subscribed to Seattle Bubble’s RSS feed and are seeing these open threads in the feed, please switch to our official feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/SeattleBubble Thanks! Here is your open thread for the week of May 20th, 2013. You may post random links and off-topic discussions here. Also, if you have an idea [...]
Posted in Open Thread | Tagged open_thread
By The Tim on May 19, 2013
Click “continue reading” below or use the sidebar to vote in this poll.
Posted in Polls | Tagged buy-vs-rent, Polls
By The Tim on May 17, 2013
Here’s one more chart on the share of sales that were bank-owned homes. This one shows the share of sales that were bank-owned broken down by the NWMLS-defined regions. In this chart I’ve grouped zip codes into their approximate NWMLS regions, which break South County into SE King and SW King and display Seattle and [...]
Posted in Neighborhoods, Statistics | Tagged King-geographic-sales, median, NWMLS, REO, Statistics
By The Tim on May 15, 2013
As promised yesterday, it’s time to check up on median home sale prices broken down by distress status: Non-distressed, bank-owned, and short sales. As of April, the non-distressed median price for King County single family home sales sits at $444,000, up 6.5% from a year earlier and up 3.3% from March. Last year the month-over-month [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged Distressed sales, median, non-distressed
By The Tim on May 14, 2013
Let’s take another look at what share of the monthly sales are being distressed sales—bank-owned and short sales. In April 2012 15.2% of the sales of single-family homes in King County were bank-owned. In April 2013 that number was just 6.8%. The low point of the last few years was 5.7% in November. I wouldn’t [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged REO, short sales
