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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 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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Buyers and Sellers Buyer’s Market or Seller’s Market? Around Here, It Depends. One of the questions I hear a lot right now is pretty simple: “Is this a buyer’s market now?” I wish the answer were just as simple. Because right now, I can show you homes where the seller still has plenty of leverage. I can also show you homes where a buyer may be able […]
Buyers and Sellers Weekly Market Update: August 10th through August 16th The local real estate market was remarkably steady this past week. New listings, closed sales, and price reductions barely moved from the week before, while pending sales provided the most notable change with a solid increase. This Week’s Stats New Listings: 210 ↑ 1 (209 last week) Pending Sales: 175 ↑ 11 (164 last week) […]
Buyers and Sellers Mortgage Rates Aren’t Falling Like Buyers Hoped. So What Now? For the last few years, there has been one piece of advice floating around the housing market almost nonstop: Just wait for mortgage rates to come down. It sounds reasonable. After all, a lower mortgage rate means a lower monthly payment and more buying power. But here we are in the second half of 2026, […]
Buyers and Sellers Weekly Market Update: August 3rd through August 9th This Week’s Stats New Listings: 209 ↑ (193 last week)Pending Sales: 164 ↓ (195 last week)Sold Homes: 123 ↓ (159 last week)Price Reductions: 220 ↑ (206 last week) Weekly Trend Overview This week’s numbers tell a pretty clear late summer story. New inventory ticked back up, with 209 new listings, an increase of about 8% […]
Buyers and Sellers Selling and Buying a Home at the Same Time? Start With a Plan One of the most common questions I get from homeowners who are thinking about moving isn’t really about where they’re going. It’s about how they’re going to get there. “Do I sell my house first, or do I buy the next one first?” And in our current market around Snohomish and North King County, that’s […]
Buyers and Sellers Weekly Market Update: July 27th through August 2nd This Week’s Stats New Listings: 193 ↓ (245 last week)Pending Sales: 195 ↑ (194 last week)Sold Homes: 159 ↑ (131 last week)Price Reductions: 206 ↓ (218 last week) Weekly Trend Overview This week brought a pretty noticeable slowdown in new inventory, with just 193 new listings, down from 245 last week. At the same time, […]