Here’s a follow-up to the breakdown of prices by distress status, first posted on these pages in July. As of August, the non-distressed median price for King County single family home sales sits at $423,900, up 2.1% from a year earlier. This down slightly from July’s increase of 2.5%, but the last four months have…
Bank-Owned Sales Fall to Lowest Point Since April ’09
The share of single-family home sales in King County that were bank-owned fell to its lowest point in 40 months in August, as just 6.3% of sales were REO. This number peaked at 22.8% in February of this year and has been plummeting ever since. Meanwhile, the share of each month’s sales that were short…
Real Actual Listing Photos: Eagle Eye Edition
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…
Poll: Local Home Owners: How much is your monthly PITI payment?
This poll was active 09.16.2012 through 09.22.2012
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2012-09-15
"Backyard houses catch the eye of City Council" http://t.co/bGXMFHzM via @SeattleTimes # "Seattle fast-tracks ban on big backyard houses; hearing Thursday" http://t.co/iROVvknI via @SeattleTimes # Three nice Czech Sky photos on the latest @urbnlivn post: http://t.co/YsJKt8oC # "The average homeownership cost in the Seattle area is $978 a month" Um, what? Yeah right. http://t.co/pcSd48cq via…