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With March now behind us, let’s have a look at our monthly 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 preview, drop a line…
Let’s check in on how Consumer Confidence and mortgage interest rates fared during January. First up, here’s the Consumer Confidence data as of March: At 81.0, the Present Situation Index increased 0.7% between February and March, and is up 34% from a year earlier. The Present Situation Index is currently up 301% from its December…
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 March 31st, 2014. You may post random links and off-topic discussions here. Also, if you have an idea…
This poll was active 03.30.2014 through 04.05.2014
A reader requested an update to the second derivative chart of Seattle home prices, so here we go. This is a chart of the rate of change in the year-over-year change—the second derivative. For a more detailed explanation and some highlights of past inflection points, check out the original 2012 introduction of this chart. Here’s…