Read the latest news about residential and commercial real estate in the Seattle area and Pacific Northwest. Topics include home sales and prices; rent and mortgage rates; apartment, condo and single-family housing markets; development, skyscrapers, construction and office space; and affordable housing issues. Some of the players in the marketplace include Vulcan, Zillow, Redfin and Case-Shiller.
Mortgage credit is tightening. Some lenders are increasing FICO score and down-payment requirements. One type of low-documentation loan has all but dried up. So-called jumbo...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. economy and housing market had set homebuilders up for a strong 2020. That was before the efforts to stem...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Long-term U.S. mortgage rates eased this week in a housing market battered by the shutdown spurred by the coronavirus pandemic. Rates hovered...
Starbucks, warning of the impact of "the worst recession since the Great Depression," has demanded rent concessions from many of its landlords. Some are not...
New listings remain stuck far below 2019 levels. But the number of pending home sales in Seattle and the rest of the Northwest Multiple Listing...
The bill says tenants who fail to pay their rent during the period of the city's declared emergency and during the six months after the...
LOS ANGELES — Many struggling homeowners who are delaying their mortgage payments through so-called forbearance programs will get a new repayment option, allowing them to...
Some borrowers who took advantage of the relief lawmakers provided are now being told that they will have to wait before they can refinance or...
The project's managers are asking for a federal grant or a bridge loan to sustain it for the next few years.
Two local digital real estate firms are under legal fire. Wooing potential clients, home repair service Porch.com has been accused of violating federal telecommunications statutes....
