Stats are out for January and there are some interesting things to look at. After the “calm” of the holiday season, we are off to a brisk start to the new year. Open houses were very busy in January and that has seemed to translate into contracts written. Closed sales decreased in January, which is […]

Happy New Year!  To kick off 2011, let's recap the last 5 years of the housing market in King and Snohomish Counties.  At the end of 2005, the market was running on all cylinders and nearly one in every two homes that came on the market sold in a month…  Put differently, there was only about 2 […]

As I've mentioned many times, we have been fairly flat as far as prices go for over a year now.  Well, average prices did hit a new low in November.  For King and Snohomish Counties combined, the average price now stands at $398,000 and the average price per square foot is $183.  These levels are just slightly […]

Let's jump right into the stats for King and Snohomish Counties combined for October…  Active listings decreased 5.3% from September but are up 7.4% from October 2009.  Pending sales are up 13.2% from September but are down 10.9% from last October.  Closed sales declined 5.9% from September and also declined 32.4% from last year at […]