Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. With the latest monthly stats release from Redfin going live a couple days ago, I thought I would spend a little more time with the data (in addition to all the on-the-clock time I spent this week getting it prepared for release). In order to make the…
Tag: Tableau
Foreclosures Spike Back Up in June, Nearly Matching Highs
Let’s expand on our preview of foreclosure activity with a more detailed look at June’s stats in King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties. First up, the Notice of Trustee Sale summary: June 2009 King: 1,378 NTS, down 14.7% YOY Snohomish: 746 NTS, down 8.7% YOY Pierce: 811 NTS, down 22.8% YOY Here’s your interactive Tableau dashboard…
Why are property tax assessments often so inaccurate?
As a follow-up on last week’s post about how falling home values can still lead to an increasing property tax bill, I thought I would go a little more detail on how the county assessor comes up with that magical home value number on which they base your tax bill. Here’s how the King County…
One in Four Seattle Area Home Listings are Distressed
[Note: I originally posted this on Tuesday morning, but less than two hours after I posted it, it was pushed down the page by the June NWMLS update. Since I put a lot of work into this map and I thought the content of this post was pretty interesting, I thought it deserved a little…
How Far Off are Sellers’ Original List Prices?
With the power of Tableau and over a year’s worth of detailed King County sales data, here’s another interactive visualization I whipped up for you. The map below is color-coded to show the average discount of the final sale price from the original list price for each zip code in King County. Below the map…