Here’s a different take on sales and price data that I found interesting. I took the total sales volume of single-family homes in King County for each year and multiplied it by the full-year average sale price, then took six percent of that amount to arrive at a total amount of potential commission paid to…
Month: January 2012
Weekend Open Thread (2012-01-20)
Here is your open thread for the weekend beginning Friday January 20th, 2012. You may post random links and off-topic discussions here. Also, if you have an idea or a topic you’d like to see covered in an article, please make it known. Be sure to also check out the forums, and get your word…
Guess the Price Round 3 Update: 13 Open Houses Later…
It’s been over two months since we kicked off Round 3 of our Guess the Price contest, so let’s have a little checkup. In the chart below I have plotted each of the thirty-two guesses by readers in this contest as a blue circle. The orange squares show where the home’s asking price has been…
All Five Price Tiers Saw Double Digit Declines in December
Let’s take another look at the King County single-family sale price percentiles. Here’s how I break down the price percentiles for these posts. Each bucket is a cutoff where some percentage of homes sold below that price, while the remaining percentage sold above that price. Bottom: 10% below, 90% above. Low: 25% below, 75% above….
Mid-Week Open Thread (2012-01-18)
Here is your open thread for the mid-week on January 18th, 2012. You may post random links and off-topic discussions here. Also, if you have an idea or a topic you’d like to see covered in an article, please make it known. Be sure to also check out the forums, and get your word in…