Here’s a follow-up to the breakdown of prices by distress status, first posted on these pages in July. As of August, the non-distressed median price for King County single family home sales sits at $423,900, up 2.1% from a year earlier. This down slightly from July’s increase of 2.5%, but the last four months have…
Month: September 2012
Mid-Week Open Thread (2012-09-19)
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Bank-Owned Sales Fall to Lowest Point Since April ’09
The share of single-family home sales in King County that were bank-owned fell to its lowest point in 40 months in August, as just 6.3% of sales were REO. This number peaked at 22.8% in February of this year and has been plummeting ever since. Meanwhile, the share of each month’s sales that were short…
Real Actual Listing Photos: Eagle Eye Edition
It’s time for another installment of Real Actual Listing Photos. Once a month (or so) I round up some of the most bizarre listing photos from around the Seattle area and post them here, with brief excerpts from the real actual listing description, and probably a bit of snarky commentary. The idea for this series…
Monday Open Thread (2012-09-17)
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