By The Tim on May 11, 2009
At the risk of beating a dead horse, I feel we must revisit the “pending” issue once more. This time, we’ll take it from the top. Prior to June of last year, a “pending” sale in the NWMLS system was defined as a sale in which an offer had been accepted, inspection and/or feasibility studies [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged dead horse, NWMLS, pending, Statistics
By The Tim on July 7, 2008
I realized we have beat the subject to death with a pair of posts and this week’s poll, but I had to at least point out a Rhodes piece in today’s Seattle Times on the issue of gas prices and home buying patterns: Will gas prices drive homebuyers away from suburbs? The article starts off [...]
Posted in News | Tagged commute, dead horse, gas prices, Rhodes, Seattle_Times, transportation
By The Tim on June 27, 2008
Here are a few recent stories that have been covered elsewhere and are worth at least mentioning here. Latest foreclosure statistics: Seattle P-I, Foreclosures in Seattle higher, but much lower than nation’s The Seattle area had about twice as many foreclosures in May as it did a year earlier but continued to have a far [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Cat Le, Cohen, commercial, Countrywide, dead horse, FHA, foreclosures, Gregoire, Kelleher, link_roundup, Pryne, Rain City Guide, Rhodes, Seattle_PI, Seattle_Times
By The Tim on February 23, 2008
This is a little redundant, but that’s why I’m posting it on a Saturday. It’s just a slightly different take on the economic fundamentals that allegedly drive the local housing market. Much of this data comes from the recently-released 2007 King County Annual Growth Report. You can get all these charts and the data behind [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged dead horse, fundamentals, King_County
By The Tim on January 22, 2007
At the risk of beating a dead horse, I’d like to continue Friday’s conversation about the re-listed house on Avondale. Thanks to yet another reply by Ms. Reed as well as a series of replies from Ardell, it has finally gotten through my thick skull that “cancel and relist” is different from “let expire and [...]
Posted in News, Opinion | Tagged anecdote, dead horse, NWMLS
