In May of this year I posted on here that I thought Zillow’s Home Value Index was misleading because it was based on Zestimates, which I believe are often significantly inaccurate. Here’s the basic idea (quoted from the May article): In order to get a picture of the current market, I looked at houses that went… Continue Reading
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Seattle Area Housing Inventory Continues to Shift Towards a More Balanced Market
The Seattle and Puget Sound housing inventory numbers for July 2009 show that the real estate market is continuing to become more balanced. In the heat maps below red indicates a seller’s market, green indicates a buyer’s market, and yellow indicates a balanced market. (Click on the map to see a larger image.) A seller’s market is… Continue Reading
Seattle Real Estate Graphs 1st Quarter 2008
I’ve been playing around with Trendgraphix, the third party stats-crunching service that Windermere provides for its agents and I’m almost embarrassed at what I have not been doing on there, now that I see how many features it has. The one thing I’ll say is that these numbers are only through March 2008, and it’s… Continue Reading