Spring gets all the attention in real estate. More homes hit the market. More buyers start looking. Open houses get busier. And for years, buyers have been conditioned to think that spring is simply when you’re supposed to buy a house. But if I were buying a home in South Snohomish or North King County […]

Labor Day weekend did exactly what we thought it might do: it put a pretty serious dent in the number of homes coming onto the market. New listings dropped sharply last week, while buyer activity held up surprisingly well. And with closed sales actually increasing, this looks much more like a holiday weekend slowdown than […]

There are places where you move because you like the house, and then there are places where the lifestyle is a pretty big part of the decision. North Bend definitely falls into the second category. Surrounded by the Cascade foothills and sitting beneath the unmistakable profile of Mount Si, North Bend offers something that’s increasingly […]

I’ll admit something right up front: I use AI. Sometimes it does something that genuinely makes me wonder how we ever worked without it. Other times I spend 20 minutes trying to get it to make one simple change to an image of my backyard redesign, and I wonder if throwing my laptop out the […]