By Matt Parker

Dear Fellow 12’s,

I wanted to let you know that I can perfectly predict both the Seahawks results and the Washington State real estate market; they are directly mathematically linked.

Pundits blame supply and demand, perhaps Wall Street manipulation or maybe the interest rate for the diabolical real estate implosion of 2008. They are wrong.

(From a local real estate broker, “thank God” for Russell Wilson.)

Consider the prosperous 2006 and 2007 real estate markets in Seattle; Residential real estate price appreciation, about 9% average for those two years, occurred in (about) 9 win seasons (9 and 10, to be specific).

The 2008 Seahawks (all due respect to former players and staff) lost 8 more games then they won (4-12). Subsequently, the local real estate market hit the turf, falling 8%.

Coincidence? Ha. Read on.

The 2009 Seahawks lost 11 games, and so did, of course, the local real estate market fall 11%.
2010 and 2011 were no better. The Seahawks won only 14 games of 32 total. You are getting the picture now, the real estate market brutally fell another 14% those two years. I literally took 2011 off from selling real estate to go surfing; it was that bad.

If you didn’t confuse Russel Wilson with a diety already, when he laced up as a rookie in 2012, the Seahawks only lost 5 games (12-5) and the local real estate market rebounded, increasing 5%. His family must invest in a lot of local real estate.

So you know what happened in 2013, of course, when the Seahawks won 10 more games then they lost, finishing 13-3, and the real estate market increased 10%; the largest such increase in real estate prices since the season after the Seahawks last 13 win season, 2005 (10% increase in 2006, as stated above).

Phew.

2014?

This is where the “Buy Real Estate Now” part comes in.

Actually, that’s a stretch. It just always behoves me to write or say that.

I do know, however, the Seahawks have not had a losing season in the last 8 years when the real estate market has shown an increase in value across the board.

We are on pace for 6% real estate appreciation in Washington. And, I might add, I would always take a Seahawk, over a Cardinal, in a caged fight.

(Here are the actual Seahawks results, with residential real estate price variations, not including condominiums, for the last eight years. All real estate stats are directly from the NWMLS. They have been rounded to the nearest whole number.)

Go Seahawks. (Buy real estate.)