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Let’s check in on how Consumer Confidence and mortgage interest rates fared during July. First up, here’s the Consumer Confidence data as of July: The overall Consumer Confidence Index currently sits at 90.9, up 5 percent in a month, 12 percent from a year ago, and at its highest point since October 2007. At 88.3,…
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…
This poll was active 08.03.2014 through 08.09.2014
With July 2014 now in the history books, 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,…
Let’s take one more look at this week’s Case-Shiller data. Specifically, the rate of change in the year-over-year rate of change, also known as the second derivative. First, let’s take a look at the direction the second derivative is moving in the 20 cities tracked by Case-Shiller. In this chart green dots represent cities with…