{"id":180,"date":"2006-04-07T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2006-04-07T08:44:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T15:44:00","slug":"times-report-not-consistent-with-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/07\/times-report-not-consistent-with-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Times’ Report Not Consistent With Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"

I could be missing something here, but yesterday’s blurb in the Seattle Times about the March sales figures<\/a> seems to me to be blatantly misrepresenting the facts. <\/p>\n

Western Washington home prices continued to climb last month as 17 of 20 counties reported price increases of 20 percent or more compared with a year earlier. That’s according to the Northwest Multiple Listing Service, which released March sales numbers today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I honestly have no idea what sales numbers Ms. Rhodes is looking at, because as you can see for yourself<\/a> (pdf)<\/i>, the NWMLS figures track 17 specific counties (and apparently 3 more classified under "others"), of which only 10 "reported price increases of 20 percent or more compared with a year earlier," 5 (and "others") reported price increases ranging from 2.90% to 18.09%, and 2 have not been tracked individually for an entire year. Furthermore, as I said yesterday, on the whole listings are up<\/i>, and "pending sales" are down<\/i>. Of the 17 counties that are individually tracked, only King, Lewis, Cowlitz, and Kittitas saw reduced inventory.<\/p>\n

Something’s fishy about Ms. Rhodes’ blurb. <\/p>\n

(Elizabeth Rhodes, Seattle Times<\/a>, 04.06.2006<\/i>)<\/p>\n

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