By The Tim on April 30, 2013
Let’s have a look at the latest data from the Case-Shiller Home Price Index. According to February data, Seattle-area home prices were: Down 0.2% January to February Up 9.3% YOY. Down 26.7% from the July 2007 peak Last year prices fell 0.8% from January to February and year-over-year prices were down 2.9%. I was actually [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged California, Case-Shiller, graphs, Statistics, Tableau
By The Tim on April 25, 2013
New local job stats came out this week, so let’s have a look at the Seattle area’s employment situation. First up, year-over-year job growth, broken down into a few relevant sectors: Construction growth dipped again, dropping from a 5.9% year-over-year gain in February to 5.2% in March. With 6.4% year-over-year growth, the retail sector was [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged Jobs, job_growth, unemployment
By The Tim on April 22, 2013
Let’s have another look at our monthly sales histogram. Sales across all price tiers got a big boost in March, while the sales curve stayed basically the same shape as February. The mode (i.e. the bucket with the most sales) for non-distressed sales moved from the $400,000 to $450,000 bucket in February down to the [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged histogram, median, sales, Tableau
By The Tim on April 16, 2013
As promised last week, 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 March, the non-distressed median price for King County single family home sales sits at $432,000, up 6.7% from a year earlier and up 1.6% from February. Not much of [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged Distressed sales, median, non-distressed
By The Tim on April 11, 2013
It’s time for our detailed look at March’s foreclosure stats in King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties. First up, the Notice of Trustee Sale summary: March 2013 King: 795 NTS, up 33% YOY Snohomish: 462 NTS, up 32% YOY Pierce: 605 NTS, up 57% YOY All three counties still above their levels from a year ago, [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged foreclosures, King_County, Notice of Trustee Sale, Pierce, Snohomish, Tableau, trustee-deeds
By The Tim on April 10, 2013
Let’s take another look at what share of the monthly sales are being distressed sales—bank-owned and short sales. In March 2012 20.1% of the sales of single-family homes in King County were bank-owned, just a few points below the highest level on record. In March 2013 that number was just 7.7%. As predicted, after bumping [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged REO, short sales
