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The exterior of the main house.

From the outside, the Whidbey Island survival compound appears normal. But step into the 9,000-square-foot shop to find shipping containers full of survival essentials and toilet paper piled to the ceiling. In the bullet-resistant main house, an escape tunnel leads to the surrounding forest.

November 21, 2020 at 6:01 am

For sale: $6 million Whidbey Island survival compound, stocked to withstand a pandemic VIEW

PetSmart CEO W.R. "Ford" Smith II is selling a 59-acre estate on Whidbey Island with a bullet-resistant house, escape tunnel to the woods and a...

Looking West on NW 46th Street in Ballard, shows a long line of recently finished apartments.
For the first time in Seattle there are as many people living in apartments as own homes. 212448

November 5, 2020 at 7:45 pm

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected where you live?

Talk to us: We want to hear from you about how the coronavirus pandemic has affected where you live. Your insights and experiences will help...

Aerials of homes in the Beacon HIll neighborhood on Friday, September 16, 2016.

November 5, 2020 at 6:28 pm

Even as Seattle home market dips, heated competition by homebuyers spreads to neighboring counties

In King County, prices dipped slightly from September — but not so in Snohomish, Kitsap and Thurston counties. See what is happening in your community.

Apartments are seen with the Space Needle looming in the background, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020 in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood. With people wanting more space and working from home during the pandemic it could be a time of deals for people looking at downtown apartment living. 215438

October 29, 2020 at 6:01 am

Pandemic brings great rent deals for some Seattle-area apartments, but not all

Plummeting demand for luxury, city-center living has led high-end apartments to slash rents and offer gangbuster deals. But more affordable areas are not seeing that...

During Gov. Inslee’s stay-home order during the coronavirus, an eastward-looking view of Seattle homes with Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountains in the background are seen from above 32nd Ave. NE, between 65th and 62nd streets, Saturday, April 4, 2020 in Seattle. The view looks across Northeast Seattle toward View Ridge. 213566

October 27, 2020 at 7:04 am

Seattle-area home prices growing faster than all but one other major U.S. metro area

Seattle continued its run as No. 2 for price growth, following the same top-performing market for the seventh consecutive month. Lower-priced homes here are seeing...

Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019. Medina from the air for the Medina initiative story. Bellevue is in the backround, Medina resting against Lake Washington. 211618 211618

October 17, 2020 at 6:01 am

Luxury home sales surge in Washington

Sales of homes over $2 million, the top 5% of the market in King and Snohomish counties, jumped more than 35% in the three months...

Another house sold quickly in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Sunday, July 12, 2020.

October 7, 2020 at 6:32 pm

Seattle-area home prices hit all-time highs; see what's happening in your neighborhood

Unrelenting demand and an inventory drought drove King County home prices to a high of $753,600 in September.

Where is the real-estate market heading? The latest monthly numbers on home sales, listings and median prices for the Puget Sound region come out Monday. (Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times)

October 1, 2020 at 4:03 pm

Listen: Millennials and mortgage rates are heating up Seattle’s housing market WATCH

During the worst bout of job losses since the Great Depression, Seattle-area home prices are rising faster than almost anywhere else in the country. Listen...

White Center is seen, looking north, from the air Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020 in West Seattle. In the background is downtown Seattle. 214836

September 29, 2020 at 7:36 am

Seattle is among hottest U.S. housing markets — and prices are rising fast on the cheapest homes

Home prices around Seattle rose faster than in any city in the country, save Phoenix, for the sixth consecutive month in midsummer. Prices in King,...

Aerial shot of the Capitol Hill Sound Transit Light Rail station (gray buildings left of center and low of center), looking towards downtown Seattle. Cal Anderson Park is at lower left. Shot Friday, September 16, 2016, looking southwest. Street at lower center heading to right center is East John St.

September 7, 2020 at 6:01 am

Language in Seattle-area rental ads divides neighborhoods along racial lines, UW study finds

The UW study suggests that language in housing rental ads may have racially-coded subtexts, possibly reinforcing biases among white prospective tenants that less-white neighborhoods are...

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