{"id":473,"date":"2007-01-05T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=473"},"modified":"2007-01-05T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T19:41:00","slug":"inventory-up-sales-down-sound-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/05\/inventory-up-sales-down-sound-familiar\/","title":{"rendered":"Inventory Up, Sales Down (Sound Familiar?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December stats are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwrealestate.com\/nwrpub\/common\/mktg.html\" title=\"NWMLS Recap: December 2006\">available from the NWMLS<\/a>.  Here&#8217;s a summary of the &#8220;residential&#8221; figures:<\/p>\n<p>Active Listings: up 23% YOY<br \/>Pending Sales: down 9% YOY<br \/>Median Closed Price: $440,000, up 12% YOY.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll update this post later today with the usual graph and links to the updated spreadsheet and the NWMLS pdfs.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Sorry about the delay.  Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/timothyellis.googlepages.com\/Seattle_Bubble.xls\" title=\"Seattle Bubble Spreadsheet\">Seattle Bubble Spreadsheet<\/a>, and here is the latest inventory &#038; sales graph:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_FEzZUX-8Hkg\/RaHHk2h8ojI\/AAAAAAAAABc\/mf-dWYpvL8w\/s1600-h\/KingCoSupplyVsDemandPct2006.12.png\" title=\"King County Supply vs Demand % Change YOY - Click to enlarge\" rel=\"lightbox[473]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_FEzZUX-8Hkg\/RaHHk2h8ojI\/AAAAAAAAABc\/mf-dWYpvL8w\/s400\/KingCoSupplyVsDemandPct2006.12.png\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 5px;\" title=\"King County Supply vs Demand % Change YOY - Click to enlarge\" alt=\"King County Supply vs Demand % Change YOY\" height=\"264\" width=\"400\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_FEzZUX-8Hkg\/RaHHk2h8ojI\/AAAAAAAAABc\/mf-dWYpvL8w\/s1600-h\/KingCoSupplyVsDemandPct2006.12.png\" title=\"King County Supply vs Demand % Change YOY - Click to enlarge\" rel=\"lightbox[473]\">Click to enlarge<\/a><\/div>\n<p>As you can see, inventory jumped slightly less YOY than it has in recent months, and sales dropped YOY slightly less than they have in recent months.  Is this the beginning of a trend toward inventory and sales stabilization?  I&#8217;m going to go with &#8220;no&#8221; for now.  We&#8217;ll really see come March.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0 auto; padding: 2px; font-size: 12px; width: 150px; text-align: center; border: 1px dashed #4386ce; background-color: #D5E2F1;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/xclick\/business=paypal%40timandjeni.com&#038;no_note=1&#038;tax=0&#038;currency_code=USD&#038;lc=US&#038;item_name=Seattle%20Bubble%20Donation\" title=\"Seattle Bubble Tip Jar\">Seattle Bubble Tip Jar<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December stats are available from the NWMLS. Here&#8217;s a summary of the &#8220;residential&#8221; figures: Active Listings: up 23% YOYPending Sales: down 9% YOYMedian Closed Price: $440,000, up 12% YOY. I&#8217;ll update this post later today with the usual graph and links to the updated spreadsheet and the NWMLS pdfs. Update: Sorry about the delay. Here&#8217;s&#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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[6,1114],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-nwmls","tag-stats"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Inventory Up, Sales Down (Sound Familiar?) \u2022 Seattle Bubble<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/05\/inventory-up-sales-down-sound-familiar\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Inventory Up, Sales Down (Sound Familiar?) \u2022 Seattle Bubble\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"December stats are available from the NWMLS. 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