I received this question via email from a reader a few weeks ago: I’ve got to ask this because it seems nobody else is asking. We know that just 3-4 years ago there was a surplus of homes on the market. We also know that in the last 3-4 years home sales have remained relatively…
Tag: inventory
June Stats Preview: Sales Peak Edition
Time to take a look at the stats preview for June’s data. 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 the…
Seattle’s Summer of Slim Selection
With real estate’s “spring buying season” basically in the rear-view mirror, one would expect that the housing inventory shortage we’ve been seeing so far in 2012 might subside. Unfortunately, that does not yet appear to be the case. Both in King County as a whole and Seattle specifically, weekly inventory data from Redfin shows a…
May Stats Preview: Not Really a Preview Edition
Granted, I missed the pre-NWMLS stats window, but I’d still like to post the stats preview charts for May. 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…
Are Listings Getting Less Scarce?
A reader emailed me to ask if I have “seen a bump in inventory” in the last few weeks. Unfortunately, I haven’t. Here’s a look at new listings by week since the beginning of the year, with last year plotted for comparison: The number of new listings each week did bump up a bit between…