With February in the books, let’s have a look at our monthly stats preview. First up, here’s the snapshot of all the data as far back as my historical information goes, with the latest, high, and low values highlighted for each series: Listings inventory inched up from its January all-time low in King County, but…
Category: Counties
County-wide statistics.
Case-Shiller Tiers: A Mostly Flat December
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 Flat in December
Let’s have a look at the latest data from the Case-Shiller Home Price Index. According to December data, Seattle-area home prices were: Down less than 0.1% November to December Up 6.6% YOY. Down 11.7% from the July 2007 peak Last year at this time prices fell 0.5% month-over-month and year-over-year prices were up 12.4%. Year-over-year…
One in Six Q4 Pending Sales Didn’t Close
Let’s take a look a the latest data on pending sales volume versus closed sales volume. For this series I roll the pending sales and closed sales data up by quarter, with pending sales offset by one month. In other words, the fourth quarter numbers below represent pending sales from September, October, and November and…
NWMLS: No Hope for a Buyers’ Market in January
January market stats were published by the NWMLS yesterday. Before we get into our monthly stats, let’s have a look at their press release. Spring market “not waiting for tulips” but limited inventory frustrates homebuyers Home sales this super bowl season outpaced a year ago as sidelined buyers emerged to compete for limited inventory, according…