
By The Tim on September 23, 2009
Admittedly, yesterday’s post comparing home prices in Seattle to a remote location in Wisconsin really wasn’t fair. Granted, it was posted more for humor than for serious consideration, but there are certainly better comparisons that we could have made.
So what would be more fair? How about if we take the top 25 cities [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged Census, list-price, population, Seattle_is_special, top-25, Zillow

By The Tim on March 19, 2009
Good news everyone!
The latest population estimates for King County have been released by the Census Bureau, and at the present rate of population growth, we’ll be able to use up all of our excess housing inventory by July of next year…
…if all residential construction across the county completely ceased after July 2008, that is.
Here’s an [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged Census, demand, occupancy, supply

By The Tim on November 5, 2008
There has been some talk lately about the overall housing stock in the Seattle area, and whether construction has been able to keep up with population growth, or if there is a housing shortage that will lead to another housing boom in a few years. So I thought now would be a good time [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged Census, demand, occupancy, supply
By The Tim on October 25, 2006
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Why have residential real estate prices experienced an unusually rapid increase in last few years? That’s the big question that we all want the answer to, right? There’s one argument that goes something like this:
There just aren’t enough [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged Census, demand, occupancy, supply
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