By The Tim on February 18, 2010
Let’s take a slightly geographically broader look at home sales than we usually restrict ourselves to.
In the Tableau viz below, you’re looking at all the NWMLS data on the number of closed single-family sales in Western Washington for every January since 2000. The “heat” number is simply the number of closed SFH sales divided [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged closed, NWMLS, OFM, population, Tableau

By The Tim on January 7, 2010
Since this month’s NWMLS press release focused on pending sales again, and there has been some discussion in the comments about what the relationship between pending and closed sales looks like in recent months, I thought it would be interesting to look at a few charts of the two data sets in a few different [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged closed, NWMLS, pending

By The Tim on December 8, 2009
Time for an installment of “quick look,” a series of posts in which I present a fresh set of charts for some recent data with minimal commentary.
Today’s theme is King County SFH November stats in bar charts compared to each November since 2000.
Note that the definition of “Active Listings” was revised in July 2008 to [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged closed, graphs, listings, NWMLS, quick-look, Statistics

By The Tim on December 6, 2009
For reference, last winter’s lowest was 661 in February. Here’s a comparison of last winter to where we’ve been so far heading into winter this year:
Please vote in this poll using the sidebar.
This poll will be active and displayed on the sidebar through 12.12.2009.
Posted in Polls | Tagged closed, Polls

By The Tim on December 2, 2009
I’ve been trying to come up with the best way of visualizing just how effective the inefficient, expensive, and economically stupid $8,000 tax credit has been at boosting home sales in the Seattle area, and I think I’ve finally come up with something really good.
To generate the chart below, I took all the single-family closed [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged closed, consumer-confidence, government_meddling, Statistics, tax credit

By The Tim on November 10, 2009
Here’s another installment of “quick look,” a series of posts in which I present a fresh set of charts for some recent data with minimal commentary.
Today’s theme is King County SFH October stats in bar charts compared to each October since 2000.
Note that the definition of “Active Listings” was revised in July 2008 to exclude [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged closed, graphs, listings, NWMLS, quick-look, Statistics
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