By The Tim on July 13, 2009
One set of data we like to check in on occasionally is the big picture of local housing supply and demand, measured by comparing the total number of housing units to the total number of households. You may recall the last time we checked in on this data back in March: Local Housing Oversupply [...]
Posted in Features, Statistics | Tagged construction, demand, occupancy, OFM, supply
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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