How Many Showings Before an Offer Is Normal?
As a rough rule, roughly 10–25 showings per offer in a balanced market — but the ratio swings with price and season. How to read your own showing data.
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All 24 articles tagged “Market data.” Researched for Greater Seattle, written in plain English.
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Reading a Seattle CMA Like a Pro: A Seven-Point Audit
An agent hands you a CMA and a suggested price. Before you nod, run this seven-point audit: comps, adjustments, status mix, and the agenda behind the number.
New Listings vs. Inventory: The Difference That Changes Everything
One is a flow, one is a level — and conflating them produces opposite conclusions from the same data. The bathtub model of Seattle housing supply.
List-to-Sale Ratio: One Stat, Three Definitions, Big Differences
A 102% list-to-sale ratio sounds precise — until you ask 'which list price?' How the ratio is computed three ways and how to actually negotiate with it.
Is It a Buyer's or Seller's Market in Seattle? How to Tell, Any Month
Skip the headlines. A five-gauge diagnostic you can run on any month's public data to tell who really has leverage in the Seattle market — and where.
Absorption Rate in Seattle Micro-Markets: Use With Caution
Absorption rate tells you how fast a market eats its inventory. It works at county scale and falls apart in micro-markets. The math and the breaking point.
Case-Shiller vs. MLS Data in Seattle: Two Different Thermometers
Case-Shiller and the local MLS median often tell different stories about Seattle prices. Both are right. How repeat-sales indexes work and when to use each.
Zillow and Redfin Estimates in Seattle: How AVMs Work, When They Miss
What's actually inside a Zestimate, why on-market and off-market accuracy differ, and the Seattle home types where automated valuations miss the most.
Seasonally Adjusted Home Prices, Explained Without the Jargon
Every spring, Seattle prices 'jump' — and every spring, part of that jump is just the calendar. What seasonal adjustment does, with a worked example.
How to Read Market Stats Like an Agent
Median price, DOM, list-to-sale ratio, pendings — a working guide to the housing dashboard, what each gauge actually measures, and the classic misreads.
Pending Sales: Seattle's Best Leading Indicator, Read Right
Closed-sale stats describe the market 4–6 weeks ago. Pending sales describe it now. How pendings work, how to compute the key ratio, and where they mislead.
Days on Market in Seattle: What Counts (and What Resets)
DOM looks like a stopwatch but behaves like a negotiated number. What starts the clock, what pauses it, what resets it, and how to read it in Seattle.
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