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.
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson alleges Alpha Omicron Pi violated an emergency rule barring rent charges when tenants can’t access their housing because of the...
Seattle City Councilmember Andrew Lewis announced Monday that he has $1 million in commitments from the private market on a campaign to double the city's...
Landlords are asking a King County Superior Court judge to block three city of Seattle laws, including a ban on winter evictions. Judge Johanna Bender...
Demolition of the 134-year-old building at First and Pike was opposed by an unusual coalition of preservationists and owners of condos. For some, their views...
The incoming Biden administration has a plan for housing and homelessness that is extraordinarily aggressive, putting billions into rent vouchers and construction, attacking restrictive zoning...
The most affordable areas saw the steepest price hikes. In Pierce County last year, the median single-family home sold for $420,000, up 13.5% over 2019.
Homebuilders have tens of thousands of unfilled jobs, despite the pandemic's high unemployment. But if you are one of those unemployed Americans willing to try,...
Before taking a large chunk of your wealth to pay off a mortgage (or before you decide to make extra payments), it’s important to take...
Your homeowners insurance policy is a financial safety net in case of a disaster, so you’ll want to ask a few important questions to make...
Windermere will buy a 75-year-old real estate firm in Sacramento, where by some measures the housing market is even more competitive than Seattle.
