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Let’s have a look at how listings are doing over the last few months. First up, here’s a view of how inventory has grown so far this year: 2013 is shaping up to have the fourth-largest one-year growth in inventory on record, behind 2007, 2006, and 2001. Next, the last three months’ worth of new…
It’s time once again to 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…
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Let’s check in again on the cheapest homes around Seattle proper. Here’s our methodology: I search the listings for the cheapest homes currently on the market, excluding short sales, in the city of Seattle proper. Any properties that are in obvious states of extreme disrepair based on listing photos and descriptions will be excluded. This…