This poll was active 01.22.2012 through 01.28.2012
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2012-01-21
PMI no longer tax-deductible. Good. http://t.co/5Q5awthU # Good news, everyone! The housing market is “in recovery” according to Lawrence Yun. http://goo.gl/4HXoC A bunch of kids are suing Quadrant Homes apparently: http://goo.gl/Y7xZZ Powered by Twitter Tools
Total Commissions Cut in Half Since 2005 Peak
Here’s a different take on sales and price data that I found interesting. I took the total sales volume of single-family homes in King County for each year and multiplied it by the full-year average sale price, then took six percent of that amount to arrive at a total amount of potential commission paid to…
Guess the Price Round 3 Update: 13 Open Houses Later…
It’s been over two months since we kicked off Round 3 of our Guess the Price contest, so let’s have a little checkup. In the chart below I have plotted each of the thirty-two guesses by readers in this contest as a blue circle. The orange squares show where the home’s asking price has been…
All Five Price Tiers Saw Double Digit Declines in December
Let’s take 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% above….