{"id":25697,"date":"2013-02-22T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T19:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=25697"},"modified":"2013-02-22T11:02:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T19:02:11","slug":"guess-the-price-round-4-we-have-a-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/22\/guess-the-price-round-4-we-have-a-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess the Price Round 4: We Have a Winner!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recall the price-guessing contest posted to these pages on July 24th: <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/24\/guess-the-price-round-4-time-for-a-rerun\/\" title=\"Guess the Price Round 4: Time for a Rerun\">Guess the Price Round 4: Time for a Rerun<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfin.com\/WA\/Everett\/3215-Kromer-Ave-98201\/home\/2685833\" title=\"3215 Kromer Ave Everett, WA 98201\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/3215-Kromer-round2-tn.jpg\" title=\"3215 Kromer Ave\" alt=\"3215 Kromer Ave\" style=\"border:1px solid #000000; float:right; margin:0 0 0 10px;\" \/><\/a>Today&#8217;s &#8220;Guess the Price&#8221; guest star is likely to be familiar to many of you&#8230; because it was the star of <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/14\/guess-the-price-win-dinner-on-the-tim\/\" title=\"Guess the Price &#038; Win Dinner on The Tim\">our very first Guess the Price contest just a year and a half ago<\/a>.  That&#8217;s right, barely over a year after finally selling for $290,000, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfin.com\/WA\/Everett\/3215-Kromer-Ave-98201\/home\/2685833\" title=\"3215 Kromer Ave Everett, WA 98201\">3215 Kromer Ave in Everett<\/a> is back on the market.  According to an agent friend of mine (not a Redfin coworker), last year&#8217;s buyers are being &#8220;forced&#8221; to sell due to a job transfer.<\/p>\n<p>This time around we&#8217;re starting with an <strong>asking price of $334,900<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We had 18 guesses in the contest before it closed, with prices ranging from $250,000 to $338,001.  The average price guessed was $313,433, and the median guess was $316,500.  Here&#8217;s the plot of all the guesses, with the final close price &#038; date marked in green:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 5px auto; width: 600px; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Guess-the-Price_3215-Kromer_b.png\" style=\"border:0;\" title=\"Price Guesses: 3215 Kromer\" alt=\"Price Guesses: 3215 Kromer\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/div>\n<p>According to the NWMLS, the home sold yesterday (after a total of 216 days on market), with a closing price of <strong>$285,000<\/strong>&mdash;just $5,000 below the price <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/24\/guess-the-price-round-4-time-for-a-rerun\/#comment-173878\" title=\"nize's winning guess\">guessed by commenter nize<\/a>.  Congratulations!  I&#8217;ll be contacting nize privately to arrange receipt of his prize.<\/p>\n<p>The final sale price came in 15% lower than the original asking price, and 1.7% lower than what this house sold for in May 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the difference between the average guess and the final sale price our contests so far:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>-2.2%<\/li>\n<li>+5.5%<\/li>\n<li>-10.5%<\/li>\n<li>+10.0%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Stay tuned in the next few weeks, when we&#8217;ll kick off another round of Guess the Price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recall the price-guessing contest posted to these pages on July 24th: Guess the Price Round 4: Time for a Rerun Today&#8217;s &#8220;Guess the Price&#8221; guest star is likely to be familiar to many of you&#8230; because it was the star of our very first Guess the Price contest just a year and a half ago&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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":[206],"tags":[145,556,734,735],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-25697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-appraisal","tag-contest","tag-game","tag-guess-the-price"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Guess the Price Round 4: We Have a Winner! 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