By The Tim on August 8, 2012
The Office of Financial Management recently emailed me their latest annual migration data, which shows the first increase in new residents moving into the state since 2006: After a paltry 6,055 people moved to Washington between April 2010 and April 2011, the pace has picked up this year, reversing a five-year trend and mostly catching [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged Hagar, migration, OFM, population
By The Tim on June 28, 2012
It’s been two years since we last took a look at the local housing oversupply. This week the Washington State Office of Financial Management released their 2012 population and housing supply estimates, so let’s update those charts. Here’s an updated chart of housing supply (total housing units) and demand (total households) for the 3-county Puget [...]
Posted in Counties, Features, Statistics | Tagged construction, demand, occupancy, OFM, oversupply, population, supply
By The Tim on April 4, 2012
Some of us were talking a few weeks ago about how important schools are to buyers in the Seattle area relative to other cities and what percentage of families here have children. I decided to pull that data as well as some additional population and home ownership data on each of the 100 largest cities [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged Census, children, home ownership, households, population, top-100, top-25
By The Tim on November 9, 2010
In yesterday’s post I took local real estate agent, appraiser, and real estate educator Richard Hagar to task for some misleading statements he made during a live appearance on KUOW last week. Specifically, I called out his claim that Washington State is currently experiencing net migration of 125,000 people per year. Mr. Hagar dropped by [...]
Posted in Features, Statistics | Tagged Hagar, migration, OFM, population
By The Tim on July 13, 2010
It’s been exactly a year since we last took a look at the local housing oversupply, and since the Washington State Office of Financial Management released their 2010 population and housing supply estimates a few weeks ago, I think it’s high time we took another look. Here’s an updated chart of housing supply (total housing [...]
Posted in Counties, Features, Statistics | Tagged construction, demand, occupancy, OFM, oversupply, population, supply
By The Tim on February 18, 2010
Let’s take a slightly geographically broader look at home sales than we usually restrict ourselves to. In the Tableau viz below, you’re looking at all the NWMLS data on the number of closed single-family sales in Western Washington for every January since 2000. The “heat” number is simply the number of closed SFH sales divided [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged closed, NWMLS, OFM, population, Tableau
