Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. Just in time for the National Ass. of Realtors’ Nationwide Open House Weekend, I just posted the results of an analysis I’ve been working on at Redfin to see if holding an open house is at all correlated with the chance that a home will sell. Do…
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All-Cash Buyers Dominating the Low End of the Market
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. As promised, I posted my all-cash buyer analysis to Redfin’s Seattle blog yesterday: 38% of Sales in King County Were Purchased With Cash in 2011 Here’s the chart from the post, with an added histogram based on your comments here earlier this week. Select which type of…
Sneak Peek: 1 in 3 King County Home Sales are All-Cash
I’ve been running some data for an upcoming post on Redfin’s Seattle blog, and came across a surprising statistic: So far in 2012, 36% of sales in King County have been all-cash. This is up from a mere 12% in 2006. Meanwhile, another 32% of homes have been purchased with a good solid 20% or…
The Czech Sky (Disturbingly) Strikes Again
If you happen to be a reader of Redfin’s blog, or Geekwire, or Curbed Seattle, you may have seen a mention of Redfin’s “Men of I.T.” 2012 calendar this week. Okay, setting aside the somewhat disturbing nature of seeing our Data Center & Network Systems Manager Ken Brush in a giant bunny suit, something else…
Fishy NWMLS Sales “Increase” in November
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. I noticed something a little fishy in last month’s sales numbers from the NWMLS. See if you can spot it in the closed sales chart: Notice how the number of closed sales ticked up between October and November this year, when every other year there was a…