As January 2011 fades into the distance in the rear view mirror, it’s time for another monthly stats preview. Most of the charts below are based on broad county-wide data that is available through a simple search of King County and Snohomish County public records. If you have additional stats you’d like to see in…
Sound Housing Quarterly: Exclusive, Unique Insights
The latest issue of Sound Housing Quarterly has been published (Q4 2010). Sound Housing Quarterly is a subscription-based sister project to Seattle Bubble that I created to provide a single consolidated and consistent source of high-level local housing market stats and analysis. This month’s report sports 51 pages packed with unique housing market insights you…
Poll: What % of King Co. SFH sales in 2011 will be REO?
This poll was active 01.30.2011 through 02.05.2011.
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2011-01-29
WA Chief Economist Arun Raha tells the WA Ass. of Realtors that real estate recovery is still a year away: http://bit.ly/gWHnGY # Interesting piece that basically argues that banks did not act in good faith http://aol.it/fpJrD3 Earlier: http://bit.ly/gTEs2Y # Are those pics of Communist propaganda posters hanging throughout the house in this @SeattleTimes fluff piece?…
One in Three Seattle Area Home Listings are Distressed
By request, here’s an update to the distressed listings map I first posted six months ago. In the map below I have taken all the currently active listings on the market in King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties, and separated them into three buckets: bank owned, short sale, and non-distressed. Each zip code has a pie…