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October market stats were published by the NWMLS today. They haven’t published their press release to its typical location yet, so let’s just dive right into our usual monthly stats. CAUTION NWMLS monthly reports include an undisclosed and varying number ofsales from previous months in their pending and closed sales statistics. Here’s your King County…
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…
Before the NWMLS data hits this week let’s check in on how Consumer Confidence and mortgage interest rates fared during October. First up, here’s the Consumer Confidence data as of October: The overall Consumer Confidence Index currently sits at 94.5, up 6 percent in a month and up 31 percent from a year ago. At…
With October now in the past, 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…
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