By The Tim on March 21, 2013
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. Redfin released February housing market data last week, so let’s take a look at the rate at which new listings are going under contract in two weeks or less in the Seattle area, compared to San Francisco and the national rate: I was concerned when this number [...]
Posted in Features, Statistics | Tagged fast-offers, pending, Redfin
By The Tim on November 14, 2012
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. Redfin released October housing market data today, so let’s take a look at the rate at which new listings are going under contract in two weeks or less in the Seattle area, compared to San Francisco and the national rate: Yikes! That’s a big spike in Seattle [...]
Posted in Features, Statistics | Tagged fast-offers, pending, Redfin
By The Tim on October 16, 2012
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. Last week Redfin released September housing market data, so let’s take a look at the rate at which homes are going under contract in two weeks or less in the Seattle area, compared to San Francisco and the national rate: No big change in the relationship between [...]
Posted in Features, Statistics | Tagged fast-offers, pending, Redfin
By The Tim on July 18, 2012
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. Last month I posted a comment from a reader who observed that offers appeared to be slowing down from their torrid spring pace. At the time I pointed out that there was “no slowdown as of the end of May” in the data. Well, last week Redfin [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged fast-offers, follow-up, pending, Redfin
By The Tim on June 13, 2012
I received the following email from a reader who has been shopping for homes this spring in North Seattle: This is just a note from the open house circuit. Houses in North Seattle are on the market a little longer than a few weeks ago. They are taking 7-15 days to show ‘pending.’ A few [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged fast-offers, pending, reader_question, Redfin
By The Tim on August 29, 2011
I was browsing Google News this morning and came across the headline combo you see below: What a perfect example of the problem with most real estate reporting. Same data, polar opposite headlines. Reporters telling the story they want to tell, regardless of what is actually going on in the market. So did pending sales [...]
Posted in National, News | Tagged Christian-Science-Monitor, Inman, NAR, pending, SF-Chron
