{"id":10767,"date":"2010-04-29T10:03:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T17:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=10767"},"modified":"2010-04-29T10:03:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T17:03:21","slug":"real-estate-heat-index-fell-across-puget-sound-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/29\/real-estate-heat-index-fell-across-puget-sound-in-q1\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Estate Heat Index Fell Across Puget Sound in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/housingquarterly.com\/?ref=sba\" title=\"Sound Housing Quarterly\">Sound Housing Quarterly<\/a> has been published (Q1 2010).  <a href=\"http:\/\/housingquarterly.com\/?ref=sba\" title=\"Sound Housing Quarterly\">Sound Housing Quarterly<\/a> is a subscription-based sister project to Seattle Bubble.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of highlights from the first quarter issue.<\/p>\n<p>The Real Estate Heat Index (a proprietary index I created that uses supply, demand, and home prices to calculate the general &#8220;heat&#8221; of the housing market) dropped in Q1 in all eight of the Puget Sound Counties I track.  Here&#8217;s a look at King, Snohomish, Pierce, and Kitsap:<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 600px; margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/housingquarterly.com\/?ref=sba\" title=\"Sound Housing Quarterly\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/REHI-1_2010-Q1-600x435.png\" title=\"Real Estate Heat Index: King, Snohomish, Pierce, Kitsap - Click to enlarge\" alt=\"Real Estate Heat Index: King, Snohomish, Pierce, Kitsap\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\" style=\"border:0; margin:0;\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, affordability increased again in all eight counties, thanks to the continued decline in median home prices and still-absurdly-low interest rates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 600px; margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/housingquarterly.com\/?ref=sba\" title=\"Sound Housing Quarterly\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Affordability-1_2010-Q1-600x435.png\" title=\"Affordability Index: King, Snohomish, Pierce, Kitsap - Click to enlarge\" alt=\"Affordability Index: King, Snohomish, Pierce, Kitsap\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\" style=\"border:0; margin:0;\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The full version of <a href=\"http:\/\/housingquarterly.com\/?ref=sba\" title=\"Sound Housing Quarterly\">Sound Housing Quarterly<\/a> includes detailed data and analysis for King, Snohomish, Pierce, Kitsap, Thurston, Island, Skagit, and Whatcom counties.<\/p>\n<p>Head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/housingquarterly.com\/?ref=sba\" title=\"Sound Housing Quarterly\">HousingQuarterly.com<\/a> to subscribe to Sound Housing Quarterly.  You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/housingquarterly.com\/downloads\/Sound-Housing-Quarterly_10Q1-Summary.pdf\" title=\"Download Sound Housing Quarterly - Q1 2010 Summary\">download a free single-page summary<\/a> of this quarter&#8217;s report, or <a href=\"http:\/\/housingquarterly.com\/free-archive\/\" title=\"Sound Housing Quarterly - Free Archive\">drop by the free archive<\/a> to check out the 2008 Q3 through 2009 Q1 reports in full at no charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of Sound Housing Quarterly has been published (Q1 2010). Sound Housing Quarterly is a subscription-based sister project to Seattle Bubble. Here are a couple of highlights from the first quarter issue. 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