Buyers and Sellers

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 💲 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 […]
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 […]
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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, […]
Buyers and Sellers Weekly Market Update: July 20th through July 26th This Week’s Stats 🏡 New Listings: 245 ⬆️ (228 last week | +17) 🤝 Pending Sales: 194 ⬆️ (189 last week | +5) 🔑 Sold Homes: 131 ⬇️ (142 last week | -11) 💲 Price Reductions: 218 ⬇️ (245 last week | -27) Weekly Trend Overview Inventory continued to build this week as new listings […]
Buyers and Sellers Weekly Market Update: July 13th through July 19th This Week’s Stats New Listings: 228 ⬇️ (272 last week)Pending Sales: 189 ⬇️ (202 last week)Sold Homes: 142 ⬆️ (137 last week)Price Reductions: 245 ⬇️ (272 last week) Weekly Trend Overview After last week’s surge in new listings following the Fourth of July holiday, the market settled back into a more typical mid summer pattern. […]
Buyers and Sellers The Market Has Changed. Here’s Why That’s Actually Good News. If you’ve been following the real estate market over the past few years, you’ve probably heard stories of buyers making offers within hours, waiving inspections, and offering well over asking price just to have a chance at winning the home. While that still happens occasionally, especially with exceptional listings, it is no longer the norm. […]
Buyers and Sellers Weekly Market Update: July 6th through July 12th This Week’s Stats 🏡 New Listings: ⬆️ 272 (127 last week)⏳ Pending: ⬆️ 202 (185 last week)🔑 Sold: ⬇️ 137 (192 last week)💲 Price Reductions: ⬆️ 272 (130 last week) Weekly Trend Overview The post holiday rebound arrived right on schedule. After the Fourth of July slowdown, new listings more than doubled as many sellers […]
Buyers and Sellers Is the Housing Market Slowing Down? Here’s What I’m Actually Seeing Just a few weeks ago, it felt like every well priced home had buyers lined up at the door. Showings were busy, multiple offers were common, and good listings seemed to disappear almost overnight. Fast forward to today, and things feel…different. Not bad. Just different. If you’re wondering whether the housing market is slowing down, […]
Buyers and Sellers Weekly Market Update: June 29th through July 5th This Week’s Numbers 📈 New Listings: 127 ⬇️ (254 last week) 📈 Pending Sales: 185 ⬇️ (231 last week) 🏡 Homes Sold: 192 ⬆️ (152 last week) 💲 Price Reductions: 130 ⬇️ (203 last week) Weekly Trend Overview As expected, the holiday weekend put the brakes on new activity across South Snohomish and North King […]
Buyers and Sellers Weekly Market Update: June 22nd through June 28th This Week’s Numbers New Listings: 252 ↑ (227 last week, +25)Pending Sales: 187 ↑ (181 last week, +6)Sold Homes: 141 ↓ (145 last week, -4)Price Reductions: 216 ↑ (212 last week, +4) Weekly Trend Overview Inventory continues to build across South Snohomish and North King Counties, with new listings climbing back above 250 after last […]