It’s time once again to expand on our preview of foreclosure activity with a more detailed look at September’s stats in King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties. First up, the Notice of Trustee Sale summary: December 2011 King: 345 NTS, down 61% YOY Snohomish: 161 NTS, down 65% YOY Pierce: 228 NTS, down 54% YOY Foreclosures…
The Housing ATM is Dead. Good Riddance.
I was playing around a bit with Google Insights for Search when I came across this rather telling chart. The dark blue line below represents the general interest in real estate topics, as measured by Google. No surprise that it peaked in July 2005 and has been on a steady down trend ever since. The…
Federal Government Sells Over 1 in 4 Seattle-Area REOs
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. We’ve been digging into a lot of different data at Redfin lately, and I found this particular set to be quite interesting. What I’ve done here is take all the bank-owned (REO) sales over 2011 and group them by the bank that was selling the home. The…
What’s Your Interest in More Homeowner Topics?
In a recent comment thread a few readers expressed interest in occasional posts on some more homeowner-focused topics, including finishing the “knife catcher” series of posts I began back in June about my personal homebuying experience (yes, that’s my home pictured at right behind Crystal, the Seattle Bubble Mascot). Here are some of the potential…
Poll: Biggest factor in location, location, location?
This poll was active 01.08.2012 through 01.14.2012.