Monday, October 15, 2012

Are We Back to the Future in Local Real Estate?


When the statistics came out last week for the month of September something jumped out right away. The graphs below are for single family homes in West Seattle. One graph covers February 2006 through July 2007. The height of the market occurred in 2006. March of 2006 had only 232 homes available (supply) and 200 pending sales (demand).

Contrast those numbers with August 2010 which had the most homes on the market (supply) at 655 active listings and  only 89 pending sales ).

Now check out the latest stats which include May 2011 through September 2012.. Notice the months of February, March, April, and December of 2006 along with January of 2007 look a lot like the last 3 months of July, August, and September of 2012.

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