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House prices in King County dropped below the $400,000 threshold last month for the first time in additional than 2 ½ years.

The median price of a single-family home that sold in October was $392,000, the Northwest Multiple Listing Service said today. That’s down from $415,000 in September and $443,950 in October 2007.

The 11.7 percent year-over-year fall away in median price was the steepest inasmuch as the subprime mortgage juncture sent national and local real-estate markets into reverse last year.

The last time the median price of a single-family home in King County was below $400,000 was in February 2006, MLS records show.

Closed sales numbers declined minutely against houses (down 20.5 percent) and condos (down 42.4 percent). Pending single-family hearth sales — deals that had been accepted but hadn’t closed — were etc. 24 percent from September and 22 percent from October 2007. Pending condo sales plunged nearly 39 percent.

Local real-estate industry leaders attributed last month’s slowdown in part to the stock market’s turmoil and other well-publicized economic crises that gave buyers and sellers pause.

“Uncertainty is not a serious thing when fabrication united of period of life’s most important decisions,” Ron Sparks, managing corruption president of Coldwell Banker Bain in Bellevue, said in a account.

The median condo compensation in King County held up better last month than that of single-family homes, dipping 1.8 percent below the October 2007 level, to $275,000.

But pending condo sales plunged nearly 39 percent.

Eric Pryne: 206-464-2231 or epryne@seattletimes.com

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