With August in the rear view mirror, it’s time for another monthly stats preview. Most of the charts below are based on broad county-wide data that is available through a simple search of King County Records and Snohomish County Records. If you have additional stats you’d like to see in the preview, drop a line…
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Case-Shiller Tiers: Low Tier Boosted as Credit Expires
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…
Case-Shiller: Tax Credit Out with a Whimper in Seattle
Let’s have a look at the latest data from the Case-Shiller Home Price Index. According to June data, Flat May to June (up 0.01%). Down 1.8% YOY. Down 23.6% from the July 2007 peak Last year prices rose 0.4% from May to June and year-over-year prices were down 16.1%. Considering that June was the last…
Misleading NWMLS Stats Hide Severity of Sales Dropoff
June market stats have been published by the NWMLS. Here’s a link to the NWMLS press release (not yet live as of this posting). As requested, here are the full monthly stats from the NWMLS “July” report. Before we get into the numbers though, there are two key points that I’d like to try to…
Which Stats Posts do You Like? Which do You Hate?
I strongly suspect that the monthly NWMLS data dump will be released later today. Since I really hate it when I put a lot of work into a detailed stats post only to have it pushed down the page by the breaking news of the NWMLS data, I thought now might be a good time…