Comments on: Bellevue Manor Price Histogram

By: ARDELL

ARDELL — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:48:57 +0000

Ann ,

This one was a poor attempt at something different Tells the story though. Too much data. I should have averaged out some of the similar pricings to avoid the crunched up data.

By: Ann Cummings

Ann Cummings — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:32:49 +0000

Hi Ardell,

Seeing your graph in this post reminded me that it was from one of your posts on AR where I learned about a site where I could make a variety of graphs. Thank you for that info!

By: ARDELL

ARDELL — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:12:52 +0000

Sandy,

I’m going to do part of Bellevue (1 zip code) next week, Redmond 98052 the week after that. I’ll do King County here, of course, as well.

If you would prefer I do Redmond first or if you want to pick the zip code of Bellevue that goes first, let me know. I prefer the area around Microsoft first, if that works for you.

By: sandy

sandy — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:01:44 +0000

Very interesting information. Waiting to see your other stats for areas like redmond, bellevue etc and predictions for 08

By: sandy

sandy — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:01:18 +0000

Hi Ardell this is very interesting information. Waiting to see your other stats for areas like redmond, bellevue etc and predictions for 08

By: ARDELL

ARDELL — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:47:20 +0000

Angie,

I will convert to excel after I get the basics down. The data represented every sale of every 1 bedroom going back to when they were built. So the dates are actual recording dates from the tax record. If only one sells in a given year and 10 sell in another year, wouldn’t that cause “bunching” no matter which program I use?

Thanks for your help. Alan, who requested price histograms has emailed me with some help as well, but he is using the latest version of Excel and I am not. I rarely use Excel, so any and all help appreciated.

By: Angie

Angie — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:16:54 +0000

Hi, Ardell,

That is quite a slope!

I think it’s a little bit difficult to gauge how much the prices changed over time because the time axis (along the bottom) isn’t linear. On that chart, it looks like all the dates of sales are bunched together–from the left edge to the middle represents 21 years, from the middle to the right edge represents 7 years. It’d be easier to see how things changed over time if each year was represented with the same distance. Shouldn’t be too hard to do with Excel…

By: Cuzin Billy Bob

Cuzin Billy Bob — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:21:25 +0000

Dat sure is a purdy mountin ya drew dar cuzin ARDELL

By: ARDELL

ARDELL — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:24:47 +0000

I emailed Dustin, but I know he’s at Inman Connect in NYC. Not sure how to handle these as people have commented on the off topic comments.

I think Dustin will just tag him so he goes straight to “in moderation”/

By: Jillayne Schlicke

Jillayne Schlicke — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:20:32 +0000

Hi Ardell,

Yes, I get them from time to time. I have found that these comments are often a copy and paste job from another blog article authored by the same person, looking to just do some cat-spray territory marking when it comes to whatever the topic happens to be.

I can usually find the article via google, and then I delete the person’s comment, sending him/her an email explaining why I deleted the comment.

If you just google the first sentence of the commment: “investors who engage….”

You’ll come upon the original article.