Author: The Tim

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.

Poll: As a buyer, it’s more important to me that I…

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This poll was active 03.10.2013 through 03.16.2013

Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2013-03-08

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http://t.co/ajIRXvwrAo distances itself from NAR with rebrand designed to "bring sentiment and warmth." Um, okay. http://t.co/apl7MKUdXY -> You could buy 27 median-priced homes in King County for the amount of the price drop on this CA home: http://t.co/Wy1j7BplYM ->

Non-Distressed Median Up 11% From 2012

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Well it’s late, but as promised yesterday, it’s time to check up on median home sale prices broken down by distress status: Non-distressed, bank-owned, and short sales. As of February, the non-distressed median price for King County single family home sales sits at $427,850, up 10.9% from a year earlier and up 7.0% from January….

Weekend Open Thread (2013-03-08)

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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 weekend beginning Friday March 8th, 2013. You may post random links and off-topic discussions here. Also, if you have an…

Distressed Sales Bump Up Again in February

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Let’s take another look at what share of the monthly sales are being distressed sales—bank-owned and short sales. In February 2012 22.8% of the sale of single-family homes in King County were bank-owned, the highest level on record. In February 2013 that number was just 9.5%. This represents a slight increase from January, but if…