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bottom-calling By The Tim on March 5, 2010
Time for the monthly reporting roundup, where I read all the local paper rehashes of the NWMLS press release so you don’t have to.
Here’s a link to this month’s NWMLS press release: Northwest MLS brokers say housing market in Washington State indicates recovery
Northwest Multiple Listing Service members reported strong gains in home sales during February, [...]
Posted in Local, News | Tagged Beeson, Benbow, Boone, bottom-calling, Crellin, Everett_Herald, JohnLScott, Kearsley, Olympian, Pryne, reporting_roundup, Scott, Seattle_PI, Seattle_Times, Spratt, Tacoma_Tribune, tax credit
By The Tim on February 5, 2010
Time for the monthly reporting roundup, where I read all the local paper rehashes of the NWMLS press release so you don’t have to.
Here’s a link to this month’s NWMLS press release: Northwest MLS members report 28 percent increase in pending sales from year ago
“More certainty” and “more stability” in the market contributed to a [...]
Posted in Local, News | Tagged Beeson, Benbow, Boone, bottom-calling, Crellin, Everett_Herald, JohnLScott, Kearsley, Olympian, Pryne, reporting_roundup, Scott, Seattle_PI, Seattle_Times, Spratt, Tacoma_Tribune, tax credit

By The Tim on January 15, 2010
A couple of readers alerted me to an interesting feature that has been added sometime recently to Google’s financial tools, the Google Real Estate Index. Obviously like most of the statistics provided by Google, this index tracks searches. Here is their description:
The Google Real Estate Index tracks queries related to “real estate, mortgage, [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged bottom-calling, Case-Shiller, Google, Statistics

By The Tim on January 6, 2010
Time for the monthly reporting roundup, where I read all the local paper rehashes of the NWMLS press release so you don’t have to.
Here’s a link to this month’s NWMLS press release: Western Washington pending home sales mark best December since 2006
“Home for the holidays” took on special meaning for 4,399 buyers whose purchase offers [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Benbow, Boone, bottom-calling, Crellin, Everett_Herald, JohnLScott, Olympian, Pryne, reporting_roundup, Roberts, Scott, Seattle_PI, Seattle_Times, Spratt, Tacoma_Tribune, tax credit

By The Tim on December 16, 2009
A few people have asked for another checkup on our bottom-calling series from February, in which we explored six different methods of forecasting the bottom for Seattle-area home prices.
Not much has changed since our most recent checkup in July, when prices as measured by the Case-Shiller Index were 22.5% off the peak (May data), and [...]
Posted in Features, Statistics | Tagged bottom-calling, predictions

By The Tim on December 4, 2009
Time for the monthly reporting roundup, where I read all the local paper rehashes of the NWMLS press release so you don’t have to.
Here’s a link to this month’s NWMLS press release: Move-up buyers, extended/expanded tax credits boost home sales; Northwest MLS brokers expect momentum to continue in 2010
“This winter will not be ‘business as [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Benbow, Boone, bottom-calling, Cohen, Crellin, Everett_Herald, JohnLScott, Kearsley, Olympian, Pryne, reporting_roundup, Scott, Seattle_PI, Seattle_Times, Tacoma_Tribune, tax credit
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