Author: William Hillis

Market Reports

Seattle home prices up by fully a quarter year...

September 10, 2021 By William Hillis

If you read our report last month, you may now understand how prices can advance very quickly in some areas on the back of transferred equity rather than on the basis of low interest...

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Market Reports

How are 23 percent annual home price index gains...

August 10, 2021 By William Hillis

Buyers, sellers, and even some brokers may be alarmed upon reading that in May 2021, the CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index  for Seattle reached a stratospheric 23.4...

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Market Reports

It Isn’t Just the Weather: Seattle Home Prices...

July 1, 2021 By William Hillis

As Seattle roasted under the heat dome in late June, S&P Dow Jones released their April 2021 CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index. The index showed historic residential...

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Home Prices March Upward as Uncertainties Gather

June 7, 2021 By William Hillis

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...

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Seattle Slips to Third Nationwide Despite Strengthening...

April 29, 2021 By William Hillis

After 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...

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Look for Another Year of Atypical Home Price Trends...

March 31, 2021 By William Hillis

With 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...

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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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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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‘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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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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