Author: William Hillis

Market Reports

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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Market Reports

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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Market Reports

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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Market Reports

Seattle Home Prices Still Second-Fastest Rising...

July 6, 2020 By William Hillis

April 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....

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Market Reports

Residential Prices in Seattle Increased in March...

May 29, 2020 By William Hillis

In 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,...

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Market Reports

Home Prices In Seattle Were Well-Positioned for...

May 4, 2020 By William Hillis

As 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...

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Market Reports

Frosty April: Home Selling Is Slowed, But Not...

April 13, 2020 By William Hillis

Six 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...

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