{"id":15492,"date":"2014-09-26T12:37:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T19:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-home-prices-drop-just-0-6-percent-in-august\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T18:10:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T01:10:35","slug":"kent-home-prices-drop-just-0-6-percent-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/kent-home-prices-drop-just-0-6-percent-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent home prices drop just 0.6 percent in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Kent home prices were down 0.6 percent in August compared to the same month in 2013 with a median price of $260,000.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Sales dropped 13.7 percent with 120 homes sold, according to a Sept. 26 report by Redfin, a Seattle-based real estate company. The numbers only reflect transactions on the Multiple Listing Service, a local or regional database of available real estate for sale by member brokers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The numbers in August compared to August 2013:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Home prices were down 0.6 percent. The median home price was $260,000<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Median price was $275,218 for single-family homes; $161,950 for condos and townhomes<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Sales were down 13.7 percent with 120 homes sold<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Homes spent a median 25 days on the market<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 35 percent of homes sold above list price<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>For more information, go to <a title=\"redfin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/\" target=\"_self\">redfin.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent home prices were down 0.6 percent in August compared to the same month in 2013 with a median price of $260,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":15493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15492"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}