With real estate’s “spring buying season” basically in the rear-view mirror, one would expect that the housing inventory shortage we’ve been seeing so far in 2012 might subside. Unfortunately, that does not yet appear to be the case. Both in King County as a whole and Seattle specifically, weekly inventory data from Redfin shows a…
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The Seattle-Area’s Most Expensive Zip Code Is…
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Mode Price Holds Steady as Average and Median Rise
It’s been a few months since we took a look at the average, median, and mode prices all together, so let’s update that chart. Here are the definitions of mode and standard deviation, for those who aren’t stats nerds. Note that for the “mode” in this chart, I have rounded every sale price to the…
All Five Home Price Percentiles Flirt with Break-Even
It’s time for another look at the King County single-family sale price percentiles. 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 price, while the remaining percentage sold above that price. Bottom: 10% below, 90% above. Low: 25% below, 75%…
By Request: 2+ Years of Redfin Size-Adjusted Prices
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. A few people requested some charts of the data in yesterday’s post going further back than just a year. Redfin doesn’t have data back through before the bust, but there is about two years of data available, so here you go. A year ago, price per square…