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Month: July 2012
Foreclosures Keep Creeping Back Up
It’s time once again to expand on our preview of foreclosure activity with a more detailed look at June’s stats in King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties. First up, the Notice of Trustee Sale summary: June 2012 King: 645 NTS, down 30.2% YOY Snohomish: 388 NTS, down 16.2% YOY Pierce: 407 NTS, down 25.3% YOY Still…
Your (Mortgaged) Home is Not an Investment
In late June’s post where I plotted the long-term trend of inflation-adjusted local home prices, there was some disagreement with my snarky insinuation that zero real appreciation over thirteen years (1999 to 2012) represents a lousy investment. As one reader correctly pointed out, the stock market’s total non-inflation-adjusted return over the same time period is…
Mid-Week Open Thread (2012-07-11)
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Sales in Cheap Regions Plummeted in the Second Quarter
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 &…