Let’s take a slightly geographically broader look at home sales than we usually restrict ourselves to. In the Tableau viz below, you’re looking at all the NWMLS data on the number of closed single-family sales in Western Washington for every January since 2000. The “heat” number is simply the number of closed SFH sales divided…
How-To: Navigate and Understand Public Records
Yesterday a reader emailed me asking how to look up public foreclosure documents. Since it’s been over a year since I covered the topic of researching public records, I thought this would be a good time to review the process. In this post we’ll be discussing the process and providing links for King County. For…
Banks offering cash incentives for short sale sellers?
Received this via email from an industry insider. It’s a letter from Wachovia Mortgage offering a $5,000 cash incentive to the a (presumably underwater) mortgage holder if they complete a short sale within 60 days. Click either image to enlarge. Quoting in part: These are challenging times and many people feel they are running out…
Puget Sound Counties Interactive January Update
Let’s take a look at January NWMLS statistics from around the sound. As usual, courtesy Tableau Software (available free to use online), the Around the Sound update is rocking sweet interactive data visualizations. Feel free to download the old charts in Excel 2007 and Excel 2003 format. To get specific info about a certain point…
Poll: Foreclosures around Seattle…
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