The latest issue of Sound Housing Quarterly has been published (Q4 2010). Sound Housing Quarterly is a subscription-based sister project to Seattle Bubble that I created to provide a single consolidated and consistent source of high-level local housing market stats and analysis.
This month’s report sports 51 pages packed with unique housing market insights you won’t find anywhere else. Far from being a rehash of the material posted on the blog, Sound Housing Quarterly is a unique collection of charts, tables, data, analysis, and predictions that I compile every quarter just for this project. Here are a couple of highlights from the fourth quarter issue.
The Real Estate Heat Index (a proprietary index I created that uses supply, demand, and home prices to calculate the general “heat” of the housing market) inched up slightly in Q4 in all eight of the Puget Sound Counties I track. Here’s a look at King, Snohomish, Pierce, and Kitsap:
Meanwhile, affordability rose slightly everywhere but Kitsap and Island, thanks to slight drops in median home prices, but mostly thanks to a continued decrease in mortgage interest rates:
The full version of Sound Housing Quarterly includes detailed data and analysis for King, Snohomish, Pierce, Kitsap, Thurston, Island, Skagit, and Whatcom counties.
Head over to HousingQuarterly.com to subscribe to Sound Housing Quarterly. You can also download a free single-page summary of this quarter’s report, or drop by the free archive to check out the 2008 Q3 through 2009 Q4 reports in full at no charge.