Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. Last Friday Redfin released their March market data. Here’s an excerpt from the narrative (which I also wrote): Spring has officially sprung. Spring–when flowers bloom, birds chirp, the sun makes an occasional appearance through brief windows in Seattle’s perpetually grey winter sky, and the real estate market…
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Redfin: Real Estate Bizarro World in Seattle in February
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. Last Thursday Redfin released their February market data. Here’s an excerpt from the narrative (which I also wrote): Welcome to Real Estate Bizarro World, where falling supply means falling prices and scarce demand still leads to multiple offer situations. 2011 continues to shape up as an unusual…
Mid-February Market Snapshot Map
Time for another sweet market status Tableau map. This time I’ve taken all the active listings as of February 17th and all the closed sales between January 1st 2010 and February 17th 2011, and slapped them all onto the same map. Crazy! Click any zip code’s circle to update all the pies and bars below…
Redfin: Buyer’s Market No Breeze for Buyers
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. Happy Friday everybody. Let’s celebrate the upcoming weekend with a sweet interactive map. That’s right, it’s time again already to check out Redfin’s January market data. Here’s an excerpt from the narrative (which, as it turns out, I wrote): “It was the best of times, it was…
One in Three Seattle Area Home Listings are Distressed
By request, here’s an update to the distressed listings map I first posted six months ago. In the map below I have taken all the currently active listings on the market in King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties, and separated them into three buckets: bank owned, short sale, and non-distressed. Each zip code has a pie…