The next few months’ CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index reports may present some out-of-trend results, due to the imposition of COVID-19 restrictions a year ago. Data from...
Read moreAfter five months of near misses, residential prices in San Diego finally passed up those of Seattle on the Case-Shiller Home Price Index in February 2021. Yet prices in the Central...
Read moreWith a year having passed since the onset of COVID-19 and the government’s restrictive measures to contain it, we might expect to see the continuation of high year-over-year...
Read moreThe November Case-Shiller Home Price Index reported that for a tenth consecutive month, the Seattle metro area remained second in the nation for residential price growth year over...
Read moreBy October, the market shocks of the spring and summer ended with seemingly no influence over residential price trajectories in the Puget Sound region. Seattle remained in second...
Read moreHomebuilders, sellers, and buyers throughout the greater Puget Sound region have stayed resilient through the annus horribilis of 2020. Residential listing inventories continue...
Read moreAt last month’s publication of the August Case Shiller Home Price Index results for Seattle, we noted an outsized monthly increase in the index results. Due most likely to pent-up...
Read moreSurging real estate activity in Western Washington has observers seeking explanations from recent headlines. RSIR has been following the regional and local trends, and despite...
Read moreIn a typical year for Puget Sound region home selling, most area markets will have passed their peaks by August. Activity would be winding down gradually, with the year’s largest...
Read moreConsistent with demographics and other trends described in the narrative account provided in our RSIR annual report published in April 2020, the transformation of the Seattle City...
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