Ira – Thank you for the heads up on the area shortnames. Don’t know why they’re in the data set like that, but I usually catch those and fix them. Overlooked that detail this month, but I have gone back in and corrected it now.

Also, I would love to run the numbers based on initial list price, but unfortunately the San Francisco data comes from about 5 or 6 different MLS systems and while some of them provide original list price data, not all do, so I don’t have a complete data set with original list price.

Thanks for the chart suggestions. I’ll think about what I can do to simplify the visualization of this data.

I do similar research for Berkeley – some suggestions

1: Compute discount based upon INITIAL list price rather than final list price. A home which dropped dramatically in initial list price and then sold for the final price didn’t have a 0% discount

2: The bar charts are confusing to me.. and I’ve been using graphs and charts for 40+ years. Perhaps they should be reversed so bars below the line above, and vice versa. Does the -7.6% figure for San Lorenzo means that the average home sold for 7.6% above the asking price. Just started reading a great book “Don’t Make Me Think” … and these charts are making me think too much.

3: Nice job of watermarking. I do the same thing

4: Walnutcrek is spelled like drek. Saintly Cities such as Sanlorenzo should have the same space that San Pablo does.

Just sayin’

Ira Serkes, putting the anal back into analytical