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In late June’s post where I plotted the long-term trend of inflation-adjusted local home prices, there was some disagreement with my snarky insinuation that zero real appreciation over thirteen years (1999 to 2012) represents a lousy investment. As one reader correctly pointed out, the stock market’s total non-inflation-adjusted return over the same time period is…
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Let’s 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 County (areas 100-130 &…
In the comments on last week’s NWMLS stats post some readers asked what the median price would look like if you removed the distressed sales from the mix. Here’s the answer: As of June, the non-distressed median price for King County single family home sales sits at $430,000, up 2.4% from a year earlier. The…
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