By The Tim on May 17, 2013
Here’s one more chart on the share of sales that were bank-owned homes. This one shows the share of sales that were bank-owned broken down by the NWMLS-defined regions. In this chart I’ve grouped zip codes into their approximate NWMLS regions, which break South County into SE King and SW King and display Seattle and [...]
Posted in Neighborhoods, Statistics | Tagged King-geographic-sales, median, NWMLS, REO, Statistics
By The Tim on May 6, 2013
March market stats were published by the NWMLS this morning. Here’s a snippet from their press release: Multiple offers are "the new normal" for housing market around Puget Sound. “Multiple offers have become the new normal,” remarked MLS director Diedre Haines, the Snohomish County regional managing broker at Coldwell Banker Bain. “We have literally gone [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged NWMLS, SAAS, Statistics
By The Tim on May 2, 2013
With April 2013 in the history books, let’s have a look at our stats preview. Most of the charts below are based on broad county-wide data that is available through a simple search of King County and Snohomish County public records. If you have additional stats you’d like to see in the preview, drop a [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged county-records, foreclosures, inventory, King, Notice of Trustee Sale, preview, sales, Snohomish, sparklines, Statistics, trustee-deeds, warranty-deeds
By The Tim on May 1, 2013
Let’s check out the three price tiers for the Seattle area, as measured by Case-Shiller. Remember, Case-Shiller’s “Seattle” data is based on single-family home repeat sales in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties. Note that the tiers are determined by sale volume. In other words, 1/3 of all sales fall into each tier. For more details [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged Case-Shiller, Statistics, tiers
By The Tim on April 30, 2013
Let’s have a look at the latest data from the Case-Shiller Home Price Index. According to February data, Seattle-area home prices were: Down 0.2% January to February Up 9.3% YOY. Down 26.7% from the July 2007 peak Last year prices fell 0.8% from January to February and year-over-year prices were down 2.9%. I was actually [...]
Posted in Counties, Statistics | Tagged California, Case-Shiller, graphs, Statistics, Tableau
By The Tim on April 18, 2013
Let’s take an updated look at how King County’s sales are shifting between the different regions around the county, since geographic shifts can and do affect the median price. In order to explore this concept, we break King County down into three regions, based on the NWMLS-defined “areas”: low end: South County (areas 100-130 & [...]
Posted in Neighborhoods, Statistics | Tagged King-geographic-sales, median, NWMLS, Statistics
