Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. Last night Redfin released their August market data. Here’s an excerpt from the narrative: Our agents are reporting a steady stream of low-ball offers hitting sellers across the board. “Low-ball offers are rolling off the tongue of touring clients,” says Kenny Whiteside, a Redfin field agent. ……
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Redfin: Seattle Home Sales Deep Freeze in July
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. Last week Redfin released their latest monthly data, along with some interesting commentary and insights from their agents. Unlike the NWMLS releases which are always full of “I can’t believe what an amazing time it is for buyers” tripe, Redfin’s text is actually interesting and informative. Here’s…
Redfin: Sales Stalling in Seattle, Climbing on Eastside
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. With the latest monthly stats release from Redfin going live a couple days ago, I thought I would spend a little more time with the data (in addition to all the on-the-clock time I spent this week getting it prepared for release). In order to make the…
One in Four Seattle Area Home Listings are Distressed
[Note: I originally posted this on Tuesday morning, but less than two hours after I posted it, it was pushed down the page by the June NWMLS update. Since I put a lot of work into this map and I thought the content of this post was pretty interesting, I thought it deserved a little…
Redfin Gets Into the Monthly Data Game
Local internet real estate technology powerhouse and discount brokerage Redfin has taken a page from the NWMLS playbook, torn it out, shredded it, burned it, flushed it down the toilet, and written a whole new book from scratch on the subject of monthly data releases. In their first data release for the Seattle area, they…