Author: William Hillis

Market Reports

Seattle Residential Prices Escalate Further with...

February 4, 2021 By William Hillis

The 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...

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Market Reports

Home Price Growth in Seattle’s Satellite Metros...

December 30, 2020 By William Hillis

By 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...

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Market Reports

‘The Necessity of This Moment:’ Puget...

December 28, 2020 By William Hillis

Homebuilders, sellers, and buyers throughout the greater Puget Sound region have stayed resilient through the annus horribilis of 2020. Residential listing inventories continue...

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Market Reports

Seattle’s Record Monthly Home Price Index Gains...

December 2, 2020 By William Hillis

At 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...

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As Residents of Other States Flee, Washingtonians...

November 19, 2020 By William Hillis

Surging real estate activity in Western Washington has observers seeking explanations from recent headlines. RSIR has been following the regional and local trends, and despite...

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Case-Shiller reports highest-ever August monthly...

October 30, 2020 By William Hillis

In 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...

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Market Reports

The Coming Eastward Shift

October 6, 2020 By William Hillis

Consistent 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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Market Reports

Seattle Residential Prices Trend Higher, But Demand...

October 5, 2020 By William Hillis

After six months with the second-fastest home price growth in the nation, Seattle was finally joined by the rest of its West Coast peers, each of whose residential price indices...

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Market Reports

With Demand Hemmed In by Low Supply, Seattle Home...

August 27, 2020 By William Hillis

In June 2020, Seattle and Phoenix remained respectively second and first in the nation for a fifth straight month on the Case-Shiller Home Price Index published by S&P Dow...

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RSIR Clients Reap Returns As Seattle Home Price...

July 31, 2020 By William Hillis

For the fourth month running, Seattle’s year-over-year percentage increase on the May 2020 S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index trailed only that of Phoenix among...

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