With the news in September that Seattle is #1 for delinquent construction loans, it probably comes as not much of a surprise that Washington State also happens to rank #1 in the nation for troubled banks, according to Calculated Risk’s unofficial problem bank list. State Percent Washington 26.3% Utah 25.0% Arizona 21.3% Nevada 20.0% Oregon…
Quick Look: October 2009 in Bar Charts
Here’s another installment of “quick look,” a series of posts in which I present a fresh set of charts for some recent data with minimal commentary. Today’s theme is King County SFH October stats in bar charts compared to each October since 2000. Note that the definition of “Active Listings” was revised in July 2008…
Another Look at Pending and Closed Sales for 2009
On Friday I posted this graph of 2009’s pending and closed sales to demonstrate just how out of whack the two have become: In the comments, a reader claimed that I was “reading this graph wrongly,” and that plotting the data in this manner “will always see a giant gap.” Since there is typically a…
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Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2009-11-07
Seattle has its very own foreclosure tour. http://is.gd/4JmKk # The only people who believe NAR's "pending sales" measure has any relation to reality are the willfully ignorant. http://is.gd/4LeQO # Seattle City Council unanimously approves "backyard cottages" http://is.gd/4LDaT # Wow, weird. RT @mattgoyer: New blog post: Moda Repossessed? http://bit.ly/24T0rB # Apparently Seattle Bubble placed 16th out…