By The Tim on September 26, 2009
Here’s a weekend data quickie for you. I just finished up a series of posts regarding price reductions on Redfin’s ten local blogs around the country, and I noticed something interesting in the data.
The data they sent me is pulled directly from their database, and so includes MLS, FSBO and REO listings. We [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged list-price, price drops, Redfin, Statistics

By The Tim on August 8, 2008
There has been some great stuff coming out of our Seattle-area “alternative” real estate businesses Redfin and Zillow this week that deserve to be mentioned.
First up, Redfin came out with a great paper called Seven Tactics for Real Estate Bargaining. Check out their blog post announcing the study here. They analyzed recent sales [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged homeowners, price drops, Redfin, Statistics, survey, Zillow
By The Tim on March 17, 2008
Aubrey Cohen is on a roll lately, doing a great job of reporting what’s really going on with the Seattle-area real estate market, instead of just painting the rosy picture that agents and builders would like to see printed. Here is Cohen’s latest, on the drastic price-cutting measures that builders just outside Seattle are [...]
Posted in News | Tagged builders, Cohen, inventory, price drops, Seattle_PI
By The Tim on September 29, 2007
Over at the Bubble Markets Inventory Tracking blog, they’ve got an ongoing series titled “If Only I Waited,” where they highlight purchases in which a home is sold (or for sale) at a significant discount to recent sales in the same neighborhood.
For the first time, the Seattle area has been featured, with a pair of [...]
| Tagged Everett, Kent, price drops
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