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October market stats are now available from the NWMLS. Here’s a snippet from their press release: Home sales "pause" with government shutdown, but brokers mostly bullish on market recovery. Home sales “paused” during October but prices continued to rise, according to the latest statistics from Northwest Multiple Listing Service. Commenting on year-to-date totals for 2013…
With the month of September now in the history books, let’s have a look at our 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…
Let’s check out the three price tiers for the Seattle area, as measured by Case-Shiller. Remember, Case-Shiller’s “Seattle” data is based on single-family home repeat sales in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties. Note that the tiers are determined by sale volume. In other words, 1/3 of all sales fall into each tier. For more details…
Let’s have a look at the latest data from the Case-Shiller Home Price Index. According to August data, Seattle-area home prices were: Up 0.5% July to August Up 13.2% YOY. Down 16.6% from the July 2007 peak Last year prices fell 0.1% from July to August and year-over-year prices were up 3.4%. Although the month-over-month…
It’s time for us to check up on stats outside of the King/Snohomish core with our “Around the Sound” statistics. If there is certain data you would like to see or ways you would like to see the data presented differently, drop a comment below and let me know. First up, a summary table: September…