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
By The Tim on May 10, 2013
It’s time for our detailed look at April’s foreclosure stats in King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties. First up, the Notice of Trustee Sale summary: April 2013 King: 746 NTS, up 69% YOY Snohomish: 420 NTS, up 53% YOY Pierce: 598 NTS, up 124% YOY Same story as most of this year: still above last year’s [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged foreclosures, King_County, Notice of Trustee Sale, Pierce, Snohomish, Tableau, trustee-deeds
By The Tim on May 6, 2013
March market stats were published by the NWMLS this morning. Here’s a snippet from their press release: Multiple offers are "the new normal" for housing market around Puget Sound. “Multiple offers have become the new normal,” remarked MLS director Diedre Haines, the Snohomish County regional managing broker at Coldwell Banker Bain. “We have literally gone [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged NWMLS, SAAS, Statistics
By The Tim on May 2, 2013
With April 2013 in the history books, let’s have a look at our stats preview. Most of the charts below are based on broad county-wide data that is available through a simple search of King County and Snohomish County public records. If you have additional stats you’d like to see in the preview, drop a [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged county-records, foreclosures, inventory, King, Notice of Trustee Sale, preview, sales, Snohomish, sparklines, Statistics, trustee-deeds, warranty-deeds
By The Tim on May 1, 2013
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 Counties, Statistics | Tagged Case-Shiller, Statistics, tiers
