{"id":25399,"date":"2013-01-21T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=25399"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:42:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T21:42:29","slug":"eastside-sales-surge-seattle-sales-slip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/21\/eastside-sales-surge-seattle-sales-slip\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastside Sales Surge, Seattle Sales Slip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s take an updated look at how King County&#8217;s sales are shifting between the different regions around the county, since geographic shifts can and do affect the median price.<\/p>\n<p>In order to explore this concept, we break King County down into three regions, based on <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/nwmls-kc-breakouts\/\" title=\"NWMLS Area Map\">the NWMLS-defined &#8220;areas&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>low end:<\/strong> South County <em>(areas 100-130 &amp; 300-360)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>mid range:<\/strong> Seattle \/ North County <em>(areas 140, 380-390, &amp; 700-800)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>high end:<\/strong> Eastside <em>(areas 500-600)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where each region&#8217;s median prices came in as of December data:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>low end:<\/strong> $193,000\u2014$303,475<\/li>\n<li><strong>mid range:<\/strong> $271,500\u2014$729,000<\/li>\n<li><strong>high end:<\/strong> $424,953\u2014$1,035,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>First up, let&#8217;s have a look at each region&#8217;s (approximate) median price (actually the median of the medians for each area within the region).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px auto;width: 600px;font-size: 0.8em;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NWMLS-King-Region-Breakdown-Median-LT_2012-12.png\" title=\"Median Price of Single Family Homes Sold\" rel=\"lightbox[25399]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NWMLS-King-Region-Breakdown-Median-LT_2012-12-600x436.png\" style=\"border: 0\" title=\"Median Price of Single Family Homes Sold - Click to enlarge\" alt=\"Median Price of Single Family Homes Sold\" width=\"600\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mid range dipped a bit in December, but the low and high regions both ticked up again.<\/p>\n<p>Next up, the percentage of each month&#8217;s closed sales that took place in each of the three regions.  The dotted line is a four-month rolling average.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px auto;width: 600px;font-size: 0.8em;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NWMLS-King-Region-Breakdown_2012-12.png\" title=\"% of Total King Co. SFH Sales by NWMLS Area\" rel=\"lightbox[25399]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NWMLS-King-Region-Breakdown_2012-12-600x436.png\" style=\"border: 0\" title=\"% of Total King Co. SFH Sales by NWMLS Area - Click to enlarge\" alt=\"% of Total King Co. SFH Sales by NWMLS Area\" width=\"600\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Big shift this month as the spendy Eastside spikes up, stealing share from mid-range Seattle.  As of December 2012, 33.7% of sales were in the low end regions, 30.6% in the mid range, and 35.7% in the high end.  A year ago the low end made up 35.4% of the sales, the mid range was 32.7%, and the high end was 31.9%.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, here&#8217;s an updated look at this same set of data all the way back through 2000:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px auto;width: 600px;font-size: 0.8em;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NWMLS-King-Region-Breakdown-LT_2012-12.png\" title=\"% of Total King Co. SFH Sales by NWMLS Area since 2000\" rel=\"lightbox[25399]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NWMLS-King-Region-Breakdown-LT_2012-12-600x436.png\" style=\"border: 0\" title=\"% of Total King Co. SFH Sales by NWMLS Area since 2000 - Click to enlarge\" alt=\"% of Total King Co. SFH Sales by NWMLS Area since 2000\" width=\"600\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There haven&#8217;t been many times when the expensive Eastside regions have had the largest share of sales.  We&#8217;re certainly in the midst of a weird market.<\/p>\n<p>As a bonus, here&#8217;s a chart of the share of sales in each NWMLS region that were bank-owned.  I created this one for Eric Pryne over at the Seattle Times a few months ago, and have updated it with December data.  In this chart I&#8217;ve grouped zip codes into their approximate NWMLS regions, which break South County into SE King and SW King and display Seattle an N King separately.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px auto;width: 600px;font-size: 0.8em;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NWMLS-King-Region-Breakdown-REOpct_2012-12.png\" title=\"Bank-Owned: Share of Total Sales - King County Single-Family\" rel=\"lightbox[25399]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NWMLS-King-Region-Breakdown-REOpct_2012-12-600x435.png\" style=\"border: 0\" title=\"Bank-Owned: Share of Total Sales - King County Single-Family - Click to enlarge\" alt=\"Bank-Owned: Share of Total Sales - King County Single-Family\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At its peak in January of 2012, nearly <em>half<\/em> of the sales in SW King County were bank-owned homes, but as of December that number had fallen to just 14%.  With the dramatic, across-the-board drop in bank-owned sales combined with the strengthening of sales in the expensive Eastside regions, it&#8217;s no wonder the county-wide median price has gone up so much over the past year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s take an updated look at how King County&#8217;s sales are shifting between the different regions around the county, since geographic shifts can and do affect the median price. 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