It’s time for our detailed look at July’s foreclosure stats in King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties. First up, the Notice of Trustee Sale summary: August 2013 King: 582 NTS, down 45% YOY Snohomish: 338 NTS, down 52% YOY Pierce: 467 NTS, down 47% YOY Although the number of trustee sale notices increased month-over-month in all…
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Tim Ellis is the founder of Seattle Bubble. His background in engineering and computer / internet technology, a fondness of data-based analysis of problems, and an addiction to spreadsheets all influence his perspective on the Seattle-area real estate market. Tim also hosts the weekly improv comedy sci-fi podcast Dispatches from the Multiverse.
Zillow & Trulia Still Apathetic About Data Quality
As regular readers here may know, after the world’s longest home search, I finally bought a house in May 2011. Specifically, we closed on May 20, 2011 and paid $224,950. Last week I happened to pull up my home on Zillow, and was greeted with an interesting surprise. According to Zillow, I purchased my home…
Weekly Open Thread (2013-09-16)
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One in Four Pending Sales Still Not Closing
It’s been quite a while since we last had a look at the percentage of pending sales that turn into closed sales, so let’s refresh that chart and take a look a the latest data. This particular series is fairly noisy when you look at it with monthly granularity, so for this post I’ve rolled…