Methodology, Sources & Data Freshness

This page explains what is sourced directly, what is editorial interpretation, and how Moving2PNW refreshes public market data.

Market Data Source

Redfin Market Tracker public feed

Latest Market Period

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Refresh Cadence

Scheduled twice weekly through GitHub Actions

Current Coverage

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What Is Directly Sourced

Neighborhood pages, city guides, and comparison pages use official city websites for parks, trails, downtown projects, event programming, waterfront access, school-adjacent park references, and planning context where available.

Those official links are now listed directly on the neighborhood pages, and the same source treatment is being carried through the broader city and overview pages.

What Is Editorial Interpretation

Real-estate fit guidance like “best for,” “tradeoff,” “compare next,” and buyer-type summaries is Moving2PNW editorial analysis. That content is meant to help buyers compare places, not to impersonate a city or government publication.

The rule on this site is simple: place anchors and factual local references should trace back to an official source when possible; market-read and buyer-fit commentary is clearly treated as editorial synthesis.

How Market Data Refreshes

The public market-data layer lives in the repo under data/ and is refreshed by a scheduled GitHub Actions workflow instead of relying on a local machine being on.

The current workflow runs on Tuesdays and Thursdays, refreshes the Washington county and city JSON feeds, verifies them, and commits changes only when the data actually updates.

Current Limits

The current market layer is public-feed based. It is strong for statewide county and city trend coverage, but it is not a substitute for private NWMLS access, agent-facing CMA tools, or parcel-level MLS exports.

If cleaner NWMLS exports or agent-supplied overrides are available later, they can be normalized into the repo without changing the public site architecture.