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Record-breaking home prices and a cutthroat market: See what's happening in your area

Driven up by a combination of low supply and high demand, home prices broke records in nearly every major county in Washington state last month.

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The Greenbelt Station townhomes were recently built very close to the light rail station in the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle Tuesday March 5, 2019. They are advertised as for sale “starting in the high $500000’s,” or there is one for rent for $2,800 per month. 209330
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As Seattle gentrifies, one-quarter of recent movers were forced out, survey shows

Erika Cherry and her husband Andre, have threatened to sue Seattle’s Department of Construction and Inspections for demanding they pay $11,000 to the city’s affordable housing fund to renovate their 650-square-foot home in the Highland Park neighborhood, the most diverse in the city. The neighborhood was one of those that was upzoned as part of the 2019 Mandatory Housing Affordability plan. The case is one example of how recent MHA upzoning, touted by some as a cure to housing discrimination, can disadvantage Black homeowners by making it harder for Black families to hold on to property in formerly-redlined neighborhoods, experts say. Katherine Khashimova Long story 214585
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Homeowners told permits for their home renovation will cost an extra $11,000, thanks to upzoning in Seattle

— PHOTO MOVED IN ADVANCE AND NOT FOR USE – ONLINE OR IN PRINT – BEFORE JULY 11, 2020. –If you have a mortgage and can’t afford to pay it because of fallout from the coronavirus, you may be able to push off your payments for several months, or even into next year. But if you’re struggling to pay your rent, your options are probably much more limited. Here are 10 steps to try and prevent your own eviction. (Robert Neubecker/The New York Times) XNYT143 XNYT143
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10 steps to take to try to prevent your own eviction

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HGTV Magazine editor Sara Peterson on the best paint for every project

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One of several peonies growing in Joanne White’s Redmond area garden. Photographed on June 6, 2020. 213208

A Redmond gardener finds peace, hope and focus in the life-affirming evolution of her landscape  VIEW

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Tuesday, July 14, 2020. Lines Only (first of two sequence). After feeding on a hyssop blossom, a hummingbird retreats with a flower on it’s beak before flicking it off to the right. 214494

Even hummingbirds are getting takeout

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Brenda Medero, a medical assistant supervisor, reaches inside a car to give a COVID-19 test to the driver at Sea Mar Community Health Center located at 31405 18th Ave. S. in Federal Way Tuesday, July 28, 2020. The testing site, where both walk-in and drive-though testing happens, is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon to 4:00 p.m. For an appointment, call 253-681-6600. COVID has hit south King County harder than the rest of the region. Approximately 15% of the people test positive. 214626

COVID-19 positivity rates drop in King County, but hot spots to south still burn brightly

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Yes, it’s already time to buy bulbs for fall planting

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Seattle native Rainn Wilson of ‘The Office’ is selling his rural L.A. retreat  VIEW