I was playing around with the sales data I’ve downloaded since April of last year when I noticed a noteworthy trend in the sales of new construction. If you split each month’s sales into new construction and re-sales, then look at the median prices of each group separately, an interesting pattern emerges. What I’ve plotted…
Category: Counties
County-wide statistics.
“Entry Level” Home Sales Fell Furthest in July
In order to get a little bit better of a feel for how the tax credit expiration is affecting the sales mix, let’s take another look at a histogram of single-family home sales in King County. To generate the chart below, I downloaded all the sales data for homes sold in King County from the…
Foreclosures Continue to Surge around Seattle
Let’s expand on our preview of foreclosure activity with a more detailed look at July’s stats in King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties. First up, the Notice of Trustee Sale summary: July 2009 King: 1,413 NTS, up 13.2% YOY Snohomish: 690 NTS, up 11.3% YOY Pierce: 872 NTS, up 8.6% YOY Here’s your interactive Tableau dashboard…
Misleading NWMLS Stats Hide Severity of Sales Dropoff
June market stats have been published by the NWMLS. Here’s a link to the NWMLS press release (not yet live as of this posting). As requested, here are the full monthly stats from the NWMLS “July” report. Before we get into the numbers though, there are two key points that I’d like to try to…
Magical Mystery Sales Appear in Latest NWMLS Data
Okay, I’ve got good news and some bad news for you. The good news is that the NWMLS did in fact release their monthly statistics today, as I expected they would. The bad news is that the data they published this month is highly suspect. In fact, I’m going to step out and go so…