Ordinarily, when the calendar flips over to a new year, it’s like somebody flipped a switch. The direction of on-market inventory literally does a 180 in a single day, from a constant decline through the last quarter to a steady increase leading into spring. This year… not so much: Last year was fairly bad (which…
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Schizo Price Drops on Seminary Campus in Tacoma
Some readers may recall this sprawling, 13,000-square-foot mansion for sale on a 9-acre estate down in Tacoma from an earlier post: Northwest Baptist Seminary: For sale in Tacoma As I pointed out to Curbed Seattle last week, the seminary campus recently had a massive $1,000,000 price drop—12.5% off the previous list price of $8,000,000. This…
Mid-February Market Snapshot Map
Time for another sweet market status Tableau map. This time I’ve taken all the active listings as of February 17th and all the closed sales between January 1st 2010 and February 17th 2011, and slapped them all onto the same map. Crazy! Click any zip code’s circle to update all the pies and bars below…
One in Three Seattle Area Home Listings are Distressed
By request, here’s an update to the distressed listings map I first posted six months ago. In the map below I have taken all the currently active listings on the market in King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties, and separated them into three buckets: bank owned, short sale, and non-distressed. Each zip code has a pie…
Listings: Stale in West Seattle, Fresh in North Seattle
I spent some time this weekend compiling a giant spreadsheet of every active listing in all of King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties, so if you don’t like the interactive Tableau maps, this probably isn’t going to be your favorite week. First up, let’s have a look at a map of the “staleness” of listings. The…