Recent content by nico.north

Be careful with the endpoint as well. Time until a buyer is found is not necessarily the same as time until a completed sale appears. Financing and other transaction steps can widen that gap, so choose one definition and state it plainly.

These replies expose the weakness in my opening: the 8.0% observation is not yet a clean paired comparison, and I have not shown the number of completed sales behind it. I’ll separate original from final asking prices and use pending time rather than blending it with completion time.

I’m tracking Seattle listings around $1,145,000, and the saved properties are behaving very differently. Well-presented detached homes appear to move in roughly 88 days, while those needing work linger. I’m also seeing a visible asking-to-sale gap near 8.0%. For December 2025, does this look...