King County home sales continue to improve in August, a usually slow home sales month.  The NWMLS reports that sales increased 5% over August 2008.  This is the 3rd consecutive month that sales increases have been reported.  Not only entry level buyers are closing on home purchases.  The area with the greatest increase in sales volume was West Bellevue/Medina with a 169% increase and Queen Anne/Magnolia with a 74 % increase.  The Greater Eastside saw the number of sales hold almost identical, although with a 10.3% drop in prices.  This is an improvement over the 15% drops seen earlier this year. 

Sep 6, 2009