In today’s Puget Sound housing market, two sellers can have very different experiences at the same time. One home may receive strong traffic in its first weekend and move quickly...
In a competitive housing market like the Pacific Northwest, it’s easy for buyers to feel disheartened or intimidated by the most typical path to homeownership: the highest price....
On Friday, February 27, 2026, industry leaders and advisors gathered in Bellevue for the latest Futurecast Forum. It was an afternoon designed to cut through headlines and translate...
Executive Summary
The Futurecast Forum convened leading voices in finance, public policy, AI, and global investment to unpack a rapidly shifting landscape shaped by federal...
For the first time in a long time, we are seeing investment and second-home mortgage interest rates starting in the low 6-percent range (scenario-dependent). For buyers who have...
The latest S&P Cotality Case-Shiller Index for US home prices, as of November 2025, reveals the slowdown in home demand and deceleration in price increases that continued towards...
Executives of Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty (RSIR) announced today the appointment of local real estate icon Barb Hindle to the executive position of Vice President...
In the Seattle-Bellevue metro, artificial intelligence (AI) is both disrupting regional employment (spurring increased job insecurity and consumer anxiety amongst lower-level IT...
As the days grow longer and give way to those glorious Pacific Northwest sunsets, we emerge from winter hibernation and spend more and more time in their yards and gardens. This...