Tag: affordability

Broker

Home Price Growth Moves South as Tacoma Becomes...

June 23, 2019 By RSIR Staff

The housing market in Seattle may have cooled off—with mediating home price growth, longer market times, and inventory gains—but the same cannot be said for nearby Tacoma,...

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Government Affairs Council

Seattle Upzone of 27 Neighborhoods Will Soon Take...

April 9, 2019 By RSIR Staff

In mid-March, the Seattle City Council voted to upzone 27 neighborhoods around the region, and after being signed by Mayor Jenny Durkan, the change is set to take effect on April...

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FutureCast Forum

The Counselors of Real Estate® Release the 2018-2019...

July 23, 2018 By RSIR Staff

The Counselors of Real Estate® recently released a special external affairs report outlining the Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate™ for 2018-2019 with an outlook on five...

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Market Reports

Seattle Condominium Demand Palpable Amidst Anemic...

June 29, 2018 By RSIR Staff

It is no secret that Seattle is undergoing a shortage of housing inventory and that the anemic levels of homes available for sale are shifting market fundamentals: more and more...

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Report

The Seattle City Council: Back to your nets

May 22, 2018 By admin

Written by William Hillis, Research Editor, RSIR Reflections on the head tax enacted by the Council If you were raised before the Game Boy generation, you’ll probably recall...

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In-City Condos

First Quarter 2018 Resale Volumes of Downtown...

April 2, 2018 By RSIR Staff

Downtown Seattle witnessed fewer condominium resales during the first quarter of 2018 compared with that of the first quarter of 2017, largely because there were fewer homes to...

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Broker

RSIR Brokers Attend Legislative Hill Day to Discuss...

January 24, 2018 By RSIR Staff

Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty brokers Eddie Chang, Jason Gibbons, Eleanor Heyrich, Vicki Jackson, and Bob Wold joined the rest of the Washington Realtors in Olympia...

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Announcement

Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty...

January 8, 2016 By RSIR Staff

2016’s arrival comes with the acknowledgement that the Seattle/Bellevue metro area has joined its West Coast peers as the newest global gateway city. That was the common thinking...

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Lending

Caresenomics week of January 24th

January 24, 2014 By caresebusby

2014 Predictions  (1.)  Mortgage Rates are Expected to Rise: What goes down will go back up. Mortgage rates rose 100 basis points in 2013 and are likely to rise in 2014. Janet...

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Lending

Rent vs. Buy – that is the question…

May 24, 2013 By caresebusby

Earlier this month, there was encouraging economic news reported with the unemployment declining to 7.5% from the previous month’s 7.6% and the lowest rate since 2008. 165,000...

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