Will Amazon’s HQ2 sink Seattle’s housing market?
Probably not, at least not in the next couple years: Amazon still plans to add the equivalent of an HQ2-sized office expansion in Seattle, and...
Seattle home prices down $80,000 from peak as buyers retreat from once-hot market
Sellers of both brand-new homes and bottom-of-the-market houses are reacting to the shift by lowering prices and offering deals to prospective buyers.
Seattle home sellers, seeing new reality, are lowering list prices faster than anywhere else
Seattle-area homebuyers are getting a double dose of good news: More sellers are dropping their asking price to lure buyers — and buyers are then...
Average Seattle-area home selling for below list price for first time in 4 years
The average Seattle-area home is selling for below list price for the first time in four years. Buyers are now more likely to avoid bidding...
Free rent in Seattle, no catch: Landlords’ faith inspired a gift for tenants
The Old Testament has a passage about the year of jubilee — every 50 years, debts are to be forgiven. The husband and wife owners...
Goldman Sachs buying Seattle’s historic Smith Tower
The purchase is part of a nearly $750 million portfolio of buildings being acquired in the Seattle and Denver areas.
Hoping for Seattle-area rents to get cheap? Don’t hold your breath | Mike Rosenberg
Yes, the rental market has cooled way down recently as more apartments open. But only after rents here soared 155 percent over the last two...
Seattle construction boom means lots of empty apartments, even some cheaper rents
It's been quite the reversal for the Seattle-area rental market, where rent growth has been near the bottom of the country in 2018 following years...
As sales plunge, King County home inventory has biggest jump on record
Sales and inventory numbers are now back to 2012 levels — when the housing market was still buyer-friendly — while prices continue to drop from...
‘Everyone was sort of passing the buck’: A cat, a utility pole and Seattle bureaucracy
Bernard was stuck. Getting help wasn’t simple.