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It’s time for another installment of Real Actual Listing Photos. Once a month (or so) I round up some of the most bizarre listing photos from around the Seattle area and post them here, with brief excerpts from the real actual listing description, and probably a bit of snarky commentary. The idea for this series…
It’s time for our detailed look at July’s foreclosure stats in King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties. First up, the Notice of Trustee Sale summary: August 2013 King: 582 NTS, down 45% YOY Snohomish: 338 NTS, down 52% YOY Pierce: 467 NTS, down 47% YOY Although the number of trustee sale notices increased month-over-month in all…
As regular readers here may know, after the world’s longest home search, I finally bought a house in May 2011. Specifically, we closed on May 20, 2011 and paid $224,950. Last week I happened to pull up my home on Zillow, and was greeted with an interesting surprise. According to Zillow, I purchased my home…
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It’s been quite a while since we last had a look at the percentage of pending sales that turn into closed sales, so let’s refresh that chart and take a look a the latest data. This particular series is fairly noisy when you look at it with monthly granularity, so for this post I’ve rolled…