Buyers and Sellers Weekly Market Update: October 19th through October 25th đź‘» Something is stirring in the fall real estate market… With Halloween coming up this weekend, the latest numbers across South Snohomish and North King Counties have a few tricks, a few treats, and thankfully nothing too terrifying. This Week’s Stats 🏡 New Listings: 167 ↓ from 201 last week 📝 Pending Sales: 140 ↑ […]
Buyers and Sellers ChatGPT Can Give You Real Estate Advice. Here’s What It Can’t Tell You. There has never been more real estate information available to buyers and sellers. Search for just about any question and you’ll find an answer. Mortgage rates, home values, whether it’s a good time to buy, whether you should sell now or wait, how much negotiating power buyers have, where prices are headed. Between national real […]
Buyers and Sellers Weekly Market Update: October 12th through October 18th The fall slowdown is becoming a little easier to see. New inventory across South Snohomish and North King Counties remained almost perfectly steady this week, but buyer activity took a noticeable step back. Pending sales dropped sharply, closed sales also declined, and price reductions remained a significant part of the market. Here’s how the numbers […]
Buyers Why Most Homeowners Are Still Glad They Bought If you’re thinking about buying a home right now, I understand why you might hesitate. Mortgage rates are higher than anyone would like. Home prices are still substantial. And depending on what headline you read on any given day, you might wonder whether buying now means you’ll wish you had waited. But there’s another side […]
Buyers and Sellers Weekly Market Update: October 5th through October 11th After a couple of weeks of movement in the numbers, this week’s real estate market across South Snohomish and North King Counties was surprisingly steady. New listings barely moved. Pending sales barely moved. And price reductions didn’t move at all. The one big change was closed sales, but there’s some context behind that number. This […]
Buyers and Sellers The Fed Cut Rates. So Why Didn’t Mortgage Rates Drop? It sounds logical. The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates, mortgage rates come down. The Fed raises rates, mortgage rates go up. Except that’s not actually how it works. This is one of the biggest misconceptions I hear when people talk about the housing market. And with every Federal Reserve meeting getting plenty of headlines, it’s […]
Buyers and Sellers Weekly Market Update: September 28th through October 4th We’re officially into October, and the fall market is starting to look like the fall market. I was out of the country last week, so there was no market update. That means the comparison below is to our last update from two weeks ago rather than a true week over week comparison. And there are […]
Community Community Spotlight: Renton, Washington Renton is one of those cities that can be surprisingly difficult to sum up in a sentence. It sits at the southeast corner of Lake Washington, roughly 11 miles south of Seattle, with easy connections toward Bellevue, Seattle, SeaTac, and the rest of the Eastside. But depending on where you are in Renton, the community […]
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Buyers You Can’t Control Mortgage Rates. But You Have More Control Than You Think. If I had a dollar for every time a buyer told me, “I’m just going to wait for rates to come down,” I could probably buy down somebody’s interest rate myself. I get it. Mortgage rates have been one of the biggest frustrations for homebuyers over the past few years. And lately, they’ve been moving […]
Buyers and Sellers Weekly Market Update: September 14th through September 20th Fall is officially knocking on the door, and this week’s numbers show a market that continues to shift as we move deeper into September. New listings slowed noticeably this week, while pending sales picked back up. At the same time, price reductions climbed to their highest level we’ve seen in several weeks. This Week’s Stats […]
Community Community Spotlight: Queen Anne, Seattle Queen Anne is one of those Seattle neighborhoods almost everyone recognizes, but describing the Queen Anne housing market with one set of numbers doesn’t really tell the story. From the activity surrounding Seattle Center in Lower Queen Anne to the residential streets farther up the hill, Queen Anne offers a surprisingly broad mix of homes, […]
Buyers and Sellers The Fall Real Estate Market Has Arrived. Here’s What Buyers and Sellers Should Expect Fall may not officially be here quite yet, but the real estate market seems to have gotten the memo. Across the areas I track in South Snohomish County and North King County, last week brought a noticeable jump in activity: 🏠 New Listings: 261 📝 Pending Sales: 148 🔑 Closed Sales: 101 đź’˛ Price Reductions: […]
Buyers and Sellers Weekly Market Update: September 7th through September 13th Well, that didn’t take long. After Labor Day weekend gave us one of the quietest weeks we’ve seen in a while, sellers came back in a BIG way. New listings more than doubled this week, but buyers didn’t exactly come rushing back with them. Stats 🏡 New Listings: 261 ↑ (124 last week) 🤝 Pending […]
Buyers and Sellers Why Fall 2026 Could Be One of the Better Buying Windows We’ve Seen in a While 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 […]
Buyers and Sellers Weekly Market Update: August 31st through September 6th 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 […]
Community Community Spotlight: North Bend, Washington 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 […]
Buyers and Sellers AI Is Changing How We Look at Our Homes. And It Might Change How We Buy Them Too. 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 […]
Buyers and Sellers Weekly Market Update: August 24th through August 30th The final full week of August brought a noticeable shift in the market, with fewer new listings and price reductions, while buyer activity actually picked up. From August 24th through August 30th: New Listings: 174 ↓ from 196 Pending Sales: 190 ↑ from 180 Sold Homes: 125 ↓ from 128 Price Reductions: 192 ↓ from […]
Community Community Spotlight: Downtown Seattle There may not be another real estate market in Western Washington quite like Downtown Seattle. Forget backyards, cul de sacs and three car garages. Downtown is about elevators, views, walkability, amenities and putting yourself in the middle of everything Seattle has to offer. It is also a market where looking at one headline price can […]
Buyers and Sellers Seattle Home Prices Are Down 2%. But What Does That Actually Mean? If you saw the latest housing headlines this week, one number probably jumped out at you: Seattle home prices are down about 2% from a year ago. According to the latest S&P Cotality Case-Shiller Home Price Index, the Seattle area posted a 1.95% year-over-year decline in June. In fact, Seattle had the weakest annual performance […]