Time for our monthly stats preview now that July is behind us. 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 in the…
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Case-Shiller Tiers: Expiring Tax Credit Bumps All 3 Tiers
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: Real Estate is Local, Free Cash is National
Let’s have a look at the latest data from the Case-Shiller Home Price Index. According to May data, Up 1.2% April to May. Down 1.4% YOY. Down 23.7% from the July 2007 peak Last year prices fell 0.3% from April to May and year-over-year prices were down 16.6%. No big surprises here. It would have…
June Housing Stats Around the Sound
Sorry about posting this a little later in the month than usual. There were just so many other fun things to write about this month. Let’s take a look at June NWMLS statistics from around the sound. As usual, courtesy Tableau Software (available free to use online), the Around the Sound update is rocking sweet…
Bank Foreclosure Losses exceed 20% in Snohomish Co.
I recently finished an analysis of public records in Snohomish County in which I pulled up every single Trustee Deed (i.e. – bank foreclosure) issued by a particular bank over roughly the past year (June ’09 – May ’10). The bank in question is one of the top twenty largest banks in the country (ranked…