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Residential Housing Statistics in King County December 2009

I was just asked this week how is the Real Estate Market in King County since I mentioned earlier about Snohomish County. Well here is information which was requested about King County. Northwest Multiple Listing Service (MLS) reported as following statistics for Dec 2009. Jan 2010 stats will be published in the coming weeks. We still got 21 months of inventory in King County while Snohomish County got 19 months of inventory of homes for sale. UNITS ACTIVE PENDING SOLD DEC 09 UNITS 6,918 1,413 1462 DEC 08 UNITS 8,707 911 929 Total Unit +/- -1789 502 533 Difference DEC % -20.55% 55.10% 57.37% YTD 09 UNITS 33,744 23,019 16,022 YTD 08 UNITS 38,889 18,895 15,991 Total Unit +/- -5145 4124 31 Difference YTD % -13.23% 21.83% 0.19% As seen above chart, Residential active listings units dropped 20.55% from 8707 units in 2008 to 6918 units in December 2009 while Pending Residential units increased 55.10%, as Dec 09 pending listings were 1413 units compare to 911 units in December 2008.  There is a huge increase in sold units at 57.37%, 1462 units closed in 2009 vs 929 units in 2008.  Snohomish County Sold... 

Zoopa, Healthy Salad Bar worth the drive to Tukwila

 Nothing tastes better than  a gleaming array of the freshest vegetables, homemade soup, and bakery on a hot summer day.  So healthy and light, even your body will thank you.  Just a half and hours drive south of Seattle, half way to Tacoma and just minutes from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, is the best place for this type of fare that you will find anywhere in the state.  Now, after closure of the restaurants in Bellevue and Seattle run by the same company, this Zoopa is the only one that is still operating in Washington State.  At least thirty feet of select produce, baked from scratch fresh breads, pizza and muffins, and soups like mom used to make.  This is a great alternative to the pricey and unhealthy heavy and greasy foods so popular with buffet style restaurants.  On a recent visit, the  delicatable menu items included a savory chicken tortilla soup,  fresh baked garlic herb focaccia bread, wheat crusted vegetable pizza, brocolli slaw and my favorite peeled green soybeans.  Just south of the Westfield Southcenter Mall (formerly Southcenter Mall)  next to Target, this is in the shadow of a shopper’s paradise with several strip malls surrounding...