{"id":104192,"date":"2016-12-06T17:43:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T01:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=104192"},"modified":"2017-01-12T12:10:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T20:10:05","slug":"nwmls-closed-sales-strong-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/06\/nwmls-closed-sales-strong-november\/","title":{"rendered":"NWMLS: Closed Sales Strong (For A November)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Get access to the full spreadsheets used to make the charts in this and other posts, as well as a variety of additional insider benefits by <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/membership\/\" title=\"Seattle Bubble Membership\">becoming a member of Seattle Bubble<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>November market stats were published by the NWMLS this morning. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northwestmls.com\/index.cfm?\/News--Information\" title=\"NWMLS Press Release\">their press release<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Real Estate Brokers Expect No Holiday Breather<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Sales Stay Strong and Supplies Remain Low<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pending sales of homes hit an all-time high for the month of November according to the latest statistics from Northwest Multiple Listing Service. The report covering 23 counties around Washington state also shows the number of new listings added during the month plunged to the lowest level in 11 months, prompting MLS leaders to predict a busy winter for residential real estate as buyers compete for the smallest inventory since March.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;November&#8217;s pending sales for the four-county area of King, Snohomish, Pierce and Kitsap were the highest since 2005. There were 44 percent more pendings than new listings,&#8221; noted J. Lennox Scott, chairman and CEO of John L. Scott Real Estate, who described market activity as a mini power surge. &#8220;Every time interest rates increase 0.5 percent we see these surges because buyers become anxious about increasing rates &#8211; but on a historical basis rates are still amazing,&#8221; he remarked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can always count on Lennox. Breathless as usual.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 590px; margin:0 auto 15px; border: 5px solid #000000; background:#FFFF00; color:#000000; font-variant: small-caps; font-size:130%; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; padding: 3px;\">\n<div style=\"font-size: 150%; background:#000000; color:#FFFF00; margin:-3px -3px -10px; padding:5px;\">CAUTION<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\">NWMLS monthly reports include an <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/11\/one-more-look-at-bogus-reports-from-the-nwmls\/\" title=\"One More Look at Bogus Reports from the NWMLS\" style=\"color:#000000; text-decoration:underline;\">undisclosed and varying number<\/a> of<br \/>sales from previous months in their pending and closed sales statistics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s your King County SFH summary, with the arrows to show whether the year-over-year direction of each indicator is favorable or unfavorable news for buyers and sellers (green = favorable, red = unfavorable):<\/p>\n<style>.CNNTable {margin: 5px auto 15px;} .CNNTable td {padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; font-size: .9em;} .top_row {font-weight: bold;} .CNNTable img {border:0;margin:0;}<\/style>\n<table class=\"CNNTable\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width:450px;\">\n<tr class=\"top_row\">\n<th style=\"font-size: 105%; border-top: 0; border-left: 0;\">November 2016<\/th>\n<th>Number<\/th>\n<th>MOM<\/th>\n<th>YOY<\/th>\n<th>Buyers<\/th>\n<th>Sellers<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Active Listings<\/td>\n<td>2,309<\/td>\n<td>-23.7%<\/td>\n<td>+0.3%<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images-global\/up-green.gif\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images-global\/down-red.gif\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Closed Sales<\/td>\n<td>2,249<\/td>\n<td>-10.5%<\/td>\n<td>+29.2%<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images-global\/down-red.gif\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images-global\/up-green.gif\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">SAAS (<a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/27\/seasonally-adjusted-active-supply-a-new-measure-of-market-virility\/\" title=\"Seasonally Adjusted Active Supply: A New Measure of Market Virility\">?<\/a>)<\/td>\n<td>0.81<\/td>\n<td>-10.5%<\/td>\n<td>-16.0%<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images-global\/down-red.gif\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images-global\/up-green.gif\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Pending Sales<\/td>\n<td>2,224<\/td>\n<td>-21.4%<\/td>\n<td>+4.8%<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images-global\/down-red.gif\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images-global\/up-green.gif\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Months of Supply<\/td>\n<td>1.03<\/td>\n<td>-14.7%<\/td>\n<td>-22.4%<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images-global\/down-red.gif\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images-global\/up-green.gif\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Median Price<a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/10\/declines-in-kings-median-price-softened-by-sales-shifts\/\" title=\"Declines in King's Median Price Softened by Sales Shifts\">*<\/a><\/td>\n<td>$550,000<\/td>\n<td>0.0%<\/td>\n<td>+10.0%<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images-global\/down-red.gif\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images-global\/up-green.gif\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Pretty much all the stats moved against buyers in November. Inventory was just barely above last year&#8217;s level, but closed sales were considerably higher than a year ago. The nearly thirty percent surge in closed sales compared to a year earlier was the largest year-over-year move we&#8217;ve seen since October 2012. It is also a little strange, considering that pending sales haven&#8217;t increased more than eight percent any time in the past twelve months. I&#8217;ll be looking into that in the coming days to try to understand what&#8217;s going on there.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s your closed sales yearly comparison chart:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a title=\"King County SFH Closed Sales\" href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/KingCoSFHClosed2016-11.png\" rel=\"lightbox[104192]\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" title=\"King County SFH Closed Sales - Click to enlarge\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/KingCoSFHClosed2016-11.png\" alt=\"King County SFH Closed Sales\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Closed sales fell slightly from October to November, but were up dramatically from a year ago, as mentioned earlier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a title=\"King County SFH Pending Sales\" href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/KingCoSFHPending2016-11.png\" rel=\"lightbox[104192]\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" title=\"King County SFH Pending Sales - Click to enlarge\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/KingCoSFHPending2016-11.png\" alt=\"King County SFH Pending Sales\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pending sales fell twenty-one percent in November, but were still up five percent year-over-year.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the graph of inventory with each year overlaid on the same chart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a title=\"King County SFH Inventory\" href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/KingCoSFHInventory2016-11.png\" rel=\"lightbox[104192]\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" title=\"King County SFH Inventory - Click to enlarge\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/KingCoSFHInventory2016-11.png\" alt=\"King County SFH Inventory\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Listings followed pretty much exactly the same path as last year, ending up the month just slightly above the same level as November 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the supply\/demand YOY graph.  &#8220;Demand&#8221; in this chart is represented by closed sales, which have had a consistent definition throughout the decade (unlike pending sales from NWMLS).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a title=\"King County Supply vs Demand % Change YOY\" href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/KingCoSupplyVsDemandPct2016-11.png\" rel=\"lightbox[104192]\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" title=\"King County Supply vs Demand % Change YOY - Click to enlarge\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/KingCoSupplyVsDemandPct2016-11.png\" alt=\"King County Supply vs Demand % Change YOY\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>November saw the strongest move into seller&#8217;s market territory that we&#8217;ve seen in a long time for demand.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the median home price YOY change graph:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a title=\"King County SFH YOY Price Change\" href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/KingCoSFHPrices2016-11.png\" rel=\"lightbox[104192]\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" title=\"King County SFH YOY Price Change - Click to enlarge\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/KingCoSFHPrices2016-11.png\" alt=\"King County SFH YOY Price Change\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Year-over-year home price gains fell from nearly fifteen percent in October back to ten percent in November<\/p>\n<p>And lastly, here is the chart comparing King County SFH prices each month for every year back to 1994 (not adjusted for inflation).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a title=\"King County SFH Prices\" href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/KingCoSFHPricesYearly2016-11.png\" rel=\"lightbox[104192]\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" title=\"King County SFH Prices - Click to enlarge\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/KingCoSFHPricesYearly2016-11.png\" alt=\"King County SFH Prices\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>October 2016: $550,000<br \/>\nJuly 2007: $481,000 <em>(previous cycle high)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the article from the Seattle Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/real-estate\/panicking-seattle-home-buyers-spooked-by-rising-interest-rates-rush-to-buy\/\" title=\"\u2018Panicking\u2019 Seattle home buyers, spooked by rising interest rates, rush to buy\">\u2018Panicking\u2019 Seattle home buyers, spooked by rising interest rates, rush to buy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If this &#8220;interest rate panic&#8221; story sounds familiar, it&#8217;s because we&#8217;ve heard it <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/08\/interest-rates-skyrocket-everybody-panic\/\" title=\"Interest Rates SKYROCKET! Everybody PANIC!\">a few<\/a> times <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/11\/deja-vu%e2%80%8e-mortgage-interest-rates-panic\/\" title=\"D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu\u200e: Mortgage Interest Rates Panic\">before<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November market stats were published by the NWMLS this morning. Here&#8217;s their press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Real Estate Brokers Expect No Holiday Breather<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Sales Stay Strong and Supplies Remain Low<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pending sales of homes hit an all-time high for the month of November according to the latest statistics from Northwest Multiple Listing Service. The report covering 23 counties around Washington state also shows the number of new listings added during the month plunged to the lowest level in 11 months, prompting MLS leaders to predict a busy winter for residential real estate as buyers compete for the smallest inventory since March.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;November&#8217;s pending sales for the four-county area of King, Snohomish, Pierce and Kitsap were the highest since 2005. There were 44 percent more pendings than new listings,&#8221; noted J. Lennox Scott, chairman and CEO of John L. Scott Real Estate, who described market activity as a mini power surge. &#8220;Every time interest rates increase 0.5 percent we see these surges because buyers become anxious about increasing rates &#8211; but on a historical basis rates are still amazing,&#8221; he remarked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can always count on Lennox. Breathless as usual&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"On the blog: NWMLS: Closed Sales Strong (For A November)","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,616],"tags":[6,521,200],"coauthors":[1158],"class_list":["post-104192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stats","category-counties","tag-nwmls","tag-saas","tag-statistics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NWMLS: Closed Sales Strong (For A November) \u2022 Seattle Bubble<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/06\/nwmls-closed-sales-strong-november\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"NWMLS: Closed Sales Strong (For A November) \u2022 Seattle Bubble\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"November market stats were published by the NWMLS this morning. 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Here's their press release:  Real Estate Brokers Expect No Holiday Breather Sales Stay Strong and Supplies Remain Low  Pending sales of homes hit an all-time high for the month of November according to the latest statistics from Northwest Multiple Listing Service. The report covering 23 counties around Washington state also shows the number of new listings added during the month plunged to the lowest level in 11 months, prompting MLS leaders to predict a busy winter for residential real estate as buyers compete for the smallest inventory since March. ... \"November's pending sales for the four-county area of King, Snohomish, Pierce and Kitsap were the highest since 2005. There were 44 percent more pendings than new listings,\" noted J. Lennox Scott, chairman and CEO of John L. Scott Real Estate, who described market activity as a mini power surge. \"Every time interest rates increase 0.5 percent we see these surges because buyers become anxious about increasing rates - but on a historical basis rates are still amazing,\" he remarked.  You can always count on Lennox. 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