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It’s a bit past time for our detailed look at August foreclosure stats in King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties. First up, the Notice of Trustee Sale summary: September 2014 King: 317 NTS, down 44% YOY Snohomish: 182 NTS, down 41% YOY Pierce: 301 NTS, down 29% YOY As usual, the number of trustee sale notices…
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Find us on the Best of Western WashingtonSeattle Bubble It’s that time of the year again. If you follow other local news sites and personalities, you may have seen some of them campaigning for votes in KING5’s annual Best of Western Washington, an online contest in which the public votes on “the best” local businesses,…
This is a couple weeks late, but let’s check in on how Consumer Confidence and mortgage interest rates fared during September. First up, here’s the Consumer Confidence data as of September: The overall Consumer Confidence Index currently sits at 86.0, down 8 percent in a month but up 7 percent from a year ago. At…
Let’s take a look a the latest data on pending sales volume versus closed sales volume. For this series I roll the pending sales and closed sales data up by quarter, with pending sales offset by one month. In other words, the third quarter numbers below represent pending sales from June, July, and August and…