A couple of readers alerted me to an interesting feature that has been added sometime recently to Google’s financial tools, the Google Real Estate Index. Obviously like most of the statistics provided by Google, this index tracks searches. Here is their description: The Google Real Estate Index tracks queries related to “real estate, mortgage, rent,…
Tag: bottom-calling
Reporting Roundup: Pretend Pending Pumping Party
Time for the monthly reporting roundup, where I read all the local paper rehashes of the NWMLS press release so you don’t have to. Here’s a link to this month’s NWMLS press release: Western Washington pending home sales mark best December since 2006 “Home for the holidays” took on special meaning for 4,399 buyers whose…
Still Searching for the Home Price Bottom Around Seattle
A few people have asked for another checkup on our bottom-calling series from February, in which we explored six different methods of forecasting the bottom for Seattle-area home prices. Not much has changed since our most recent checkup in July, when prices as measured by the Case-Shiller Index were 22.5% off the peak (May data),…
Reporting Roundup: See Market Run. Run Market Run.
Time for the monthly reporting roundup, where I read all the local paper rehashes of the NWMLS press release so you don’t have to. Here’s a link to this month’s NWMLS press release: Move-up buyers, extended/expanded tax credits boost home sales; Northwest MLS brokers expect momentum to continue in 2010 “This winter will not be…
October Reporting Roundup: Happy Fun Tax Credit Party Time!
Time for the monthly reporting roundup, where I read all the local paper rehashes of the NWMLS press release so you don’t have to. Here’s a link to this month’s NWMLS press release: Tax credit spurs big surge in Western Washington home sales Before we get into the roundup, I’d like to take a moment…