Let’s expand on our preview of foreclosure activity with a more detailed look at May’s stats in King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties. First up, the Notice of Trustee Sale summary: May 2009 King: 1,096 NTS, up 10.5% YOY Snohomish: 593 NTS, up 16.0% YOY Pierce: 740 NTS, up 1.9% YOY Here’s your interactive Tableau dashboard…
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How Much Home Does a Million Bucks Buy: 2000-2010
Here’s a little chart I whipped up that I thought was interesting. I pulled up a list of all the single-family homes sold for $1 million dollars over the last ten years in King County and averaged the square footage of the homes sold each year. The data from 2000 and 2001 was a little…
NWMLS: Pending Sales Predictably Plummet
May market stats have been published by the NWMLS. Here’s a link to the NWMLS press release (not live quite yet): Home sales adjusting after surge before tax credits expired. Home sales during May tapered off around Washington state following a surge of activity in April as buyers hustled to meet deadlines for tax credits….
Heatmap of Average Prices for 2010 Home Sales
Yesterday, in response to the sales histogram I posted, a reader asked: Where the hell are all of these sub-350k houses? That’s just the sort of question that a zip code heat map might answer. So here you go. HeatMap Powered by Tableau Unfortunately Tableau does not have a median function, so average price will…
May Sales Shift Toward More Expensive Homes
Here’s another update to our monthly sales spread histogram for King County SFH sales. According to my preliminary analysis of May data, the median price of SFH homes sold in May will probably rise around another $10,000 to about $385,000. However, this isn’t because homes are suddenly gaining value, but rather because people just bought more expensive homes in May, as you can see when you compare May to April in the interactive chart below…