The usual suspects have chimed in this morning with their detailed stories (as well as graphs, figures, and photographs) reacting to the September sales figures.<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Rhodes in the Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n For the third straight month, there were more sales but fewer homes to choose from in King and Snohomish counties, compared with the same period a year ago, according to September sales numbers released yesterday by the Northwest Multiple Listing Service<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Brad Wong in the P-I<\/a>:<\/p>\n After losing one Seattle house in a bidding war, Rachel Schulenburg spent part of Thursday touring a three-bedroom brick Tudor in Magnolia, which is listed for $615,000.<\/p>\n Schulenburg, 32, arrived from Chicago on Oct. 1 after her husband had landed a job with a Seattle insurance company. “We’re definitely excited,” she said after visiting the house. “But the multiple-offer thing is frustrating. It’s something we’re not used to.”<\/p>\n But new residents such as Schulenburg, and younger adults remaining and buying in the Seattle region, kept the real estate market strong in September, as the median sales price of a single-family house in King County grew to $381,250, the Northwest Multiple Listing Service reported Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And finally, Clayton Park with the King County Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n Home prices on the Eastside shot up to an all-time high in September, breaking the record set the previous month, the Northwest Multiple Listing Service reported Thursday.<\/p>\n In southeast King County, overall home prices dipped in September compared with August, but remained considerably higher than prices a year ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Each article has its own angle on the numbers, with Rhodes speculating on the disparity between faltering prices in Boston, D.C., and California, and Seattle’s still-burning market, and both Wong and Park looking forward to increased activity next month brought on by the Microsoft class-action lawsuit payout. I could easily make each one into its own post, but since they’re all centered around the September figures, that seemed redundant.<\/p>\n (Elizabeth Rhodes, Seattle Times<\/a>, 10.07.2005<\/i>)
(Brad Wong, Seattle P-I<\/a>, 10.07.2005<\/i>)
(Clayton Park, King County Journal<\/a>, 10.07.2005<\/i>)<\/p>\n