Homes sell faster in Seattle, U.S.

Seattle is at the top of the list of the 10 markets where the number of list-to-sale days is shortest. The city is tied with San Francisco and San Jose, Calif., at 36 days. No market on the list is above 45 days, with Portland and Tacoma, Wash., also showing up. In the past eight years, Tacoma is also among three cities which have seen the most dramatic drop in list-to-sale time, with the number of days (44) falling 70 percent. Winston-Salem, N.C., and Salt Lake City are the other two. The markets with listings that have shortest list-to-sale time on Trulia are all in the West while those that have the longest are all in the East. Seattle has held onto the designation of hottest housing market in the country for 19 straight months. A dramatic spike in population fueled by the region’s tech boom, coupled with a low inventory of homes for sale, has been blamed for skyrocketing prices.