Seattle Bubble

Those of you that have been following King County inventory may have noticed something a little odd about June’s official end-of-month inventory count from the NWMLS. While the number of listings appearing on local home search sites seemed to indicate that June’s inventory would be a few hundred higher than May, the NWMLS statistics [...]

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Let’s check in on the NWMLS statistics from around the sound.
Here’s where the YOY stats stand for each of the six counties as of June 2008:
King - Price: -4.3% | Listings: +25.4% | Sales: -27.2% | MOS: 6.0
Snohomish - Price: -9.0% | Listings: +8.1% | Sales: -35.0% | MOS: 8.0
Pierce - Price: -6.6% | Listings: [...]

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I received a question recently from a reader that can basically be boiled down to “does record-high inventory really equate to the ‘larger selection’ that real estate agents have been touting recently?” Here is their reasoning for asking:
Let’s say (just making numbers up here) that during the boom years 10 houses with your parameters [...]

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Let’s check in on the NWMLS statistics from around the sound and see if the bottom is in yet for any of the seven Puget Sound counties we’re tracking.
Here’s where the YOY stats stand for each of the six counties as of May 2008:
King - Price: -6.2% | Listings: +41.7% | Sales: -38.7% | MOS: [...]

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Let’s check in on the NWMLS statistics from around the sound. I realized this month that if I’m going to include Skagit County in the Puget Sound wrapup, I should probably include Island County as well. So from now on we’re looking at seven Puget Sound counties. I’d change the name of [...]

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Here’s an update to the NWMLS statistics for all six Puget Sound counties. I don’t personally want to live in King County, and maybe you don’t either. So, here’s a little graphical look at what the market looks like around the sound.
Here’s where the YOY stats stand for each of the six counties [...]

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