It’s time once again for the monthly reporting roundup, where you can read my wry commentary about the news instead of subjecting yourself to boring rehashes of the NWMLS press release (or in addition to, if that’s what floats your boat). To kick things off, here’s an excerpt from the NWMLS press release: Home sales…
Month: November 2013
NWMLS: Listings Up From 2012, Pending Sales Down
October market stats are now available from the NWMLS. Here’s a snippet from their press release: Home sales "pause" with government shutdown, but brokers mostly bullish on market recovery. Home sales “paused” during October but prices continued to rise, according to the latest statistics from Northwest Multiple Listing Service. Commenting on year-to-date totals for 2013…
Undocumented Shadow Inventory Scarce in King County
Don’t worry: This will be my last post about the shadow inventory issue for quite some time. In last Friday’s post about shadow inventory, “Haybaler” shared a great link in which Calculated Risk reported LPS delinquency data for September. This data addresses the main complaint some of you have raised about my previous analysis of…
October Stats Preview: Inventory Up Year-Over-Year Edition
With the month of September now 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…
Weekly Open Thread (2013-11-04)
NOTE: If you are subscribed to Seattle Bubble’s RSS feed and are seeing these open threads in the feed, please switch to our official feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/SeattleBubble Thanks! Here is your open thread for the week of November 4th, 2013. You may post random links and off-topic discussions here. Also, if you have an idea…