The Seattle area is filling up new apartments faster than any region in the country, suggesting demand for housing is starting to catch up with the record construction boom – not a great sign for tenants hoping landlords get desperate and drop rents.
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Relief for Seattle-area condo buyers as prices drop amid flood of new units
Local condo prices skyrocketed even faster than single-family home costs or apartment rents in recent years, but now a shifting condo market is offering a...
Seattle Times to sell Bothell printing plant to help fund news operations VIEW
The Seattle Times plans to sell its printing-press property in Bothell to fund news operations, and will shift toward printing the paper at its Rotary...
Seattle rents growing at among slowest rates in country as apartment boom reaches record
Seattle is in the top five of cities for apartment construction in the country, while its rent growth ranks at 559 out of 820 cities....
Seattle neighbors band together against developer to save ‘exceptional tree’
One neighborhood's conundrum highlights a larger one playing out across the city and its swiftly shifting topography: Can a swelling population co-exist alongside keeping the...
U.S. mortgage rates post biggest drop in decade to 4.06 pct.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average 30-year fixed rate mortgage plunged to 4.06 percent this week, down from 4.28 percent last week....
This is new Seattle: Homes built a century apart sit side-by-side in stark architectural contrast | Seattle Sketcher
Take a stroll through most residential Seattle neighborhoods these days and you'll likely see a variety of contrasting architectural styles. It's just another sign of...
The aim was to create affordable housing on the Eastside. But some owners had other homes.
A Regional Coalition for Housing was supposed to create low-income housing for residents of Eastside cities that traditionally have expensive homes and condominiums. But some...
HUD is reviewing Twitter’s and Google’s ad practices as part of housing discrimination probe
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration delivered its first sanction of a tech giant Thursday, charging Facebook with housing discrimination in a move that could threaten...