{"id":5072,"date":"2009-04-08T09:39:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T16:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=5072"},"modified":"2009-04-08T09:39:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T16:39:56","slug":"king-county-sfh-q1-snapshot-the-buyers-market-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/08\/king-county-sfh-q1-snapshot-the-buyers-market-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"King County SFH Q1 Snapshot: The Buyer&#8217;s Market Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the first quarter is behind us, I thought it might be instructive to give it a little context.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at quarterly closed sales of King County single-family homes from 2000 through 2009 Q1:<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 600px; margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/sales-per-quarter_2009_q1.png\" title=\"King County Closed Sales per Quarter\" rel=\"lightbox[5072]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/sales-per-quarter_2009_q1-600x435.png\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 5px;\" title=\"King County Closed Sales per Quarter - Click to enlarge\" alt=\"King County Closed Sales per Quarter\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the same view of pending sales:<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 600px; margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/pendings-per-quarter_2009_q1.png\" title=\"King County Pending Sales per Quarter\" rel=\"lightbox[5072]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/pendings-per-quarter_2009_q1-600x435.png\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 5px;\" title=\"King County Pending Sales per Quarter - Click to enlarge\" alt=\"King County Pending Sales per Quarter\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and here&#8217;s the same view of total new listings:<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 600px; margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/listings-per-quarter_2009_q1.png\" title=\"King County New Listings per Quarter\" rel=\"lightbox[5072]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/listings-per-quarter_2009_q1-600x435.png\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 5px;\" title=\"King County New Listings per Quarter - Click to enlarge\" alt=\"King County New Listings per Quarter\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And lastly, just for fun, here&#8217;s a look at the quarter-to-quarter change in the median price for each quarter since Q1 2000:<\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 600px; margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/price-change-per-quarter_2009_q1.png\" title=\"King County Price Change per Quarter\" rel=\"lightbox[5072]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/price-change-per-quarter_2009_q1-600x435.png\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 5px;\" title=\"King County Price Change per Quarter - Click to enlarge\" alt=\"King County Price Change per Quarter\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: It&#8217;s a good time to be home shopping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the first quarter is behind us, I thought it might be instructive to give it a little context. Here&#8217;s a look at quarterly closed sales of King County single-family homes from 2000 through 2009 Q1: And here&#8217;s the same view of pending sales: &#8230;and here&#8217;s the same view of total new listings: And&#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":[8],"tags":[58,6,505,254],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stats","tag-king_county","tag-nwmls","tag-quarterly","tag-sales"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>King County SFH Q1 Snapshot: The Buyer&#039;s Market Continues \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\/2009\/04\/08\/king-county-sfh-q1-snapshot-the-buyers-market-continues\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"King County SFH Q1 Snapshot: The Buyer&#039;s Market Continues \u2022 Seattle Bubble\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Now that the first quarter is behind us, I thought it might be instructive to give it a little context. 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