The latest issue of Sound Housing Quarterly has been published (Q1 2011). Sound Housing Quarterly is a subscription-based sister project to Seattle Bubble that I created to provide a single consolidated and consistent source of high-level local housing market stats and analysis. This month’s report sports 49 pages packed with unique housing market insights you…
Tag: affordability
King County Affordability at Levels Not Seen Since 1998
After spending a couple days looking at incomes and home prices, let’s throw interest rates into the mix as well with an updated look at affordability. As a brief refresher, here’s the formula for calculating the affordability index: While we discuss the broad county-wide affordability trends, don’t forget that you can also play around with…
Sound Housing Quarterly: Exclusive, Unique Insights
The latest issue of Sound Housing Quarterly has been published (Q4 2010). Sound Housing Quarterly is a subscription-based sister project to Seattle Bubble that I created to provide a single consolidated and consistent source of high-level local housing market stats and analysis. This month’s report sports 51 pages packed with unique housing market insights you…
Puget Sound Housing Market Entered Deep Freeze in Q3
The latest issue of Sound Housing Quarterly has been published (Q3 2010). Sound Housing Quarterly is a subscription-based sister project to Seattle Bubble that I created to provide a single consolidated and consistent source of high-level local housing market stats and analysis. This month’s report is 48 pages long, and took me the better part…
Big Picture Week: Examining Home Affordability
In one of the first responses to yesterday’s look at Seattle’s long-term Case-Shiller Home Price Index Ross Peterson brought up a good point: So equivalent annual income increase did not keep up with the housing prices increase but did the buying power keep up with the increase? I think the interests rates have fallen in…