Okay one last Case-Shiller post this week: The national “rewind” map, and the month-to-month city count visualization. First up, the map. As a refresher, in the map below I’ve put the Case-Shiller home price index data from all twenty cities on a map. The size of each circle represents how far back prices have rewound…
Category: Counties
County-wide statistics.
Case-Shiller Tiers: Middle Tier Took a Big Hit in September
Let’s check out the three price tiers for the Seattle area, as measured by Case-Shiller. Remember, Case-Shiller’s “Seattle” data is based on single-family home repeat sales in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties. Note that the tiers are determined by sale volume. In other words, 1/3 of all sales fall into each tier. For more details…
Case-Shiller: Seattle Home Prices Fall into Fall
Let’s have a look at the latest data from the Case-Shiller Home Price Index. According to September data, Seattle-area home prices were: Down 1.1% August to September. Down 6.5% YOY. Down 29.5% from the July 2007 peak Last year prices fell 0.8% from July to August and year-over-year prices were down 2.4%. After increasing for…
King Co. Average Price 30% Off Peak, Mode Down 40%
Feedback from yesterday’s data included some of you requesting that I produce a longer-range version of the plot of average, median, and mode. Your wish is my command. Here are those aggregations going back to the beginning of 2007, which is as far back as I have been able to pull detailed sales data: The…
Average and Mode Price Fell Months Before the Median
Here’s a data set that I pulled a while ago and apparently forgot to post. In the chart below, in addition to the median price metric that we usually focus on, I’ve plotted the average price as well as the mode (after bucketing prices into $50k ranges): What’s interesting to me about this chart is…