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August market stats were published by the NWMLS today. Here’s a snippet from their press release: Western Washington housing market stability continues with modest gains in sales, prices. “Stability” seemed to characterize the direction of Western Washington’s housing market during August, according to new figures from Northwest Multiple Listing Service. Both the volume of sales…
Let’s check in again on the cheapest homes around Seattle proper. Here’s our methodology: I search the listings for the cheapest homes currently on the market, excluding short sales, in the city of Seattle proper. Any properties that are in obvious states of extreme disrepair based on listing photos and descriptions will be excluded. This…
With August behind us, let’s have a look at our 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 the preview, drop a line in…
This poll was active 08.31.2014 through 09.06.2014
Let’s check in on how Consumer Confidence and mortgage interest rates fared during August. First up, here’s the Consumer Confidence data as of August: The overall Consumer Confidence Index currently sits at 92.4, up 2 percent in a month, 13 percent from a year ago, and at its highest point since October 2007. At 94.6,…