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Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2010-01-09
Great article in the NYT on the counter-productive nature of recent government interventions in housing. http://is.gd/5K0gx # The disappearing Boeing article I linked last week has reappeared: Boeing faces challenging economy, bitter rival in 2010 http://is.gd/5L8gp # Audio from my appearance this afternoon on KUOW has been added to the post. http://bit.ly/8tx6yW # via @TechFlash:…
2009 Pending vs. Closed Sales Wrap-Up
Since this month’s NWMLS press release focused on pending sales again, and there has been some discussion in the comments about what the relationship between pending and closed sales looks like in recent months, I thought it would be interesting to look at a few charts of the two data sets in a few different…
Reporting Roundup: Pretend Pending Pumping Party
Time for the monthly reporting roundup, where I read all the local paper rehashes of the NWMLS press release so you don’t have to. Here’s a link to this month’s NWMLS press release: Western Washington pending home sales mark best December since 2006 “Home for the holidays” took on special meaning for 4,399 buyers whose…
NWMLS: Closed Sales Sag Slightly in December
December market stats have been published by the NWMLS. Here’s the NWMLS press release: Western Washington pending home sales mark best December since 2006. Hard to believe they’re still crowing about pending sales. Here’s your King County SFH summary, with the arrows to show whether the year-over-year direction of each indicator is favorable or unfavorable…