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...
Read moreFor 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...
Read moreApril 2020 saw a third straight month with residential home price increases in the Seattle metropolitan region leading those of all other cities in the U.S. except for Phoenix....
Read moreIn the face of back-to-back market crashes in the first half of March, buyers nevertheless responded favorably to seasonally higher inventories of homes for sale. In King, Pierce,...
Read moreAs reported last month, real-estate selling activity in the Puget Sound region carried forward the late-2019 price recovery until mid-March, when the first of the Governor’s...
Read moreSix weeks after the first death in the country attributed to COVID-19, ordinary activity in western Washington State as in much of the nation has ground to a halt. This has been...
Read moreDuring the month of the first U.S. diagnosis of COVID-19 here in Washington State, home sellers and buyers remained seemingly unaware of the looming threat. According to January...
Read moreGovernor Inslee recently expanded Washington State’s prohibitions on public gatherings in an urgent response to the COVID-19 contagion. Together with the spread of the virus...
Read moreLast year’s home buying behavior shifted sales away from Seattle’s most expensive markets; but relief was temporary. The demand for more affordable homes further out exhausted...
Read moreLast month, when the October results of the S&P CoreLogic Case Shiller Home Price Index were released, we observed that “prices since recorded by the NWMLS suggest that Seattle...
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