Seattle Real Estate:

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It’s a sign of the times that this question has been coming up a lot lately. Before the market took its current turn, bank owned transactions were pretty uncommon and short sales where downright rare. Bank Owned Commissions Work Like Any Other Sale Learn more about bank owned homes in the Seattle area – read [...]

We recently had a request for information on what’s happening with the real estate market in Bellevue and Issaquah. The following figures are all for single family homes – no condos, land, or multi-family.

You’ll see that the charts call out both average (avg) and median (med) numbers. Each tell a different story and are useful to look at the market from different angles.

The last month displayed is May 2009. I find that it pays to wait a few days into the following month before compiling stats. It can take a few days for all of the sales to be updated in the MLS.