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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]