It’s been a while since we had a look at local job growth data, so let’s update those charts. First up, year-over-year job growth, broken down into a few relevant sectors: Finance, real estate, and construction are all still shedding jobs, despite a slight year-over-year uptick in overall employment data, which seems to be bouyed…
Category: Counties
County-wide statistics.
Affordability Hits Record High on Low Rates & Price Drops
Here’s a headline from the Seattle Times that’s sure to get some attention: King County housing-affordability index best in 17 years Thanks to declining prices and record-low interest rates, houses in King County are more affordable now than they’ve been in at least 17 years, a new score card says. The county’s “housing affordability index”…
Local Factors Push Foreclosures to Unnatural Lows
It’s time once again to expand on our preview of foreclosure activity with a more detailed look at September’s stats in King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties. First up, the Notice of Trustee Sale summary: October 2011 King: 376 NTS, down 71% YOY Snohomish: 159 NTS, down 78% YOY Pierce: 239 NTS, down 70% YOY Another…
Bottom Percentile Hits 50% Off Peak, Down 20% YoY
I realized last week that it has been almost exactly a year since I first posted the price percentile data. It’s way past time for an update to that data set. Here’s how I break down the price percentiles for these posts. Each bucket is a cutoff where some percentage of homes sold below that…
NWMLS: Supply, Demand, and Prices All Sinking Together
October market stats were published by the NWMLS this afternoon. Here’s their press release: Housing activity during October shows mixed results with sales up, prices down, buyers still hesitant Befitting October and Halloween, last month’s housing activity had both tricks and treats. Northwest Multiple Listing Service members reported solid gains in pending sales (up almost…