I’ll be in San Francisco today and Friday for Redfin’s semiannual Hackathon, an intense coding marathon where our crack team of software developers come together from Seattle, San Francisco, and Austin to crank out incredible experimental features in mere hours. The basic format has ten teams of four to six developers competing to produce the…
Sales Curve Shifting to More Expensive Homes
It’s been way too long (over a year) since I posted the histogram of monthly sales. Let’s take another look. To generate the chart below, I took all the sales data for single-family homes sold in King, Snohomish, and Pierce Counties from the beginning of 2010 through the end of June. Since my data download…
Guess the Price Round 4: Time for a Rerun
Time for another round of “Guess the Price.” Here’s how the game works. I’ll describe a home that’s currently on the market, giving you as many pros and cons as I can, and you guess what the final sale price will be when/if it sells. Be sure to enter your real email address into the…
Dick Beeson Finally Reluctant to Call the Bottom
Big hat tip to SeattleJo, a reader who pointed out to me that last week our local PBS affiliate KBTC aired an interesting episode of their “Northwest Now” program, focused on local real estate. The whole thing is worth a watch, but the real fun starts at the 5:38 mark, when host Tom Layson has…
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