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December s sales figures capped a wild year.
By
Benjamin Cassidy
1/11/2021 at 10:13am
Greenlake.
We shouldn t have expected anything different from a year of upheaval, but December offered yet another example that temperatures did not align with Seattle s real estate market in 2020. The market is just as hot or almost as hot as it was in the summertime, says Nicole Bascomb, the owner of Kent-based Bascomb Real Estate Group. And that just doesn t happen here. Usually, it cools down tremendously this time of year.
In King County, pending sales for single-family homes and condos rose nearly 24 percent compared to December 2019, and closed sales climbed more than 28 percent, according to Northwest Multiple Listing Service s latest figures. In Seattle the differences were even more marked: a 45 percent hike in pending deals and a 30.7 percent bump in closed ones. And median prices went up 5.8 percent year-over-year. So which neighborhoods in our city closed 202