{"id":10630,"date":"2010-04-19T11:20:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T18:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=10630"},"modified":"2010-04-19T11:20:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T18:20:06","slug":"king-county-sfh-q1-snapshot-new-listings-pick-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/19\/king-county-sfh-q1-snapshot-new-listings-pick-up\/","title":{"rendered":"King County SFH Q1 Snapshot: New Listings Pick Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like I haven&#8217;t posted this set of charts in nearly a year.  With the first quarter behind us, I thought it might be instructive to give it a little context.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at quarterly closed sales of King County single-family homes from 2000 through 2010 Q1:<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 600px; margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/quarterly-sales_2010_Q1.png\" title=\"King County Closed Sales per Quarter\" rel=\"lightbox[10630]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/quarterly-sales_2010_Q1-600x435.png\" style=\"border: 0;\" title=\"King County Closed Sales per Quarter - Click to enlarge\" alt=\"King County Closed Sales per Quarter\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Q1 2010 easily trounced Q1 2009, but fell short of 2008.  This is somewhat interesting considering that Q4 2009 surpassed Q4 2008 by a wide margin and even beat Q4 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the same view of total new listings:<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 600px; margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/quarterly-listings_2010_Q1.png\" title=\"King County New Listings per Quarter\" rel=\"lightbox[10630]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/quarterly-listings_2010_Q1-600x435.png\" style=\"border: 0;\" title=\"King County New Listings per Quarter - Click to enlarge\" alt=\"King County New Listings per Quarter\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It would appear that the talk of a recovery in the housing market is at least enough to convince more home owners to list than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>And lastly, just for fun, here&#8217;s a look at the quarter-to-quarter change in the median price for each quarter since Q1 2000:<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 600px; margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/quarterly-price-change_2010_Q1.png.png\" title=\"King County Price Change per Quarter\" rel=\"lightbox[10630]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/quarterly-price-change_2010_Q1-600x435.png\" style=\"border: 0;\" title=\"King County Price Change per Quarter - Click to enlarge\" alt=\"King County Price Change per Quarter\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Q1 was definitely not as extreme as a year ago, but it was still the second-worst to date.  It will be interesting to see how Q2 shapes up, especially since the tax credit is expiring, and last year the newly-minted tax credit pushed prices up fast enought to set a new record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like I haven&#8217;t posted this set of charts in nearly a year. With the first quarter behind us, I thought it might be instructive to give it a little context. 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