Seattle Real Estate

Compared to cities tracked in a national index, Seattle home prices rose  faster between February and March than 18 of the 19 other cities that were tracked. The 12 month rise was still within the national average. According the Standard & Poor’s/Case Shiller home price index, Seattle prices rose...

According to the April Zillow Real Estate Market Reports, U.S. home value continues to climb. April was the sixth consecutive month that home values exceeded a 5 percent climb. This is the largest streak since 2006, but according to the report, this streak isn't  predicted to last forever. As mor...

According to a study conducted by Zillow, when it comes to understanding mortgages, buyers answered basic questions about terms, lenders and financing wrong one third of the time. The study of over 1,000 prospective and current buyers, which was conducted in April found that 34% didn’t know the m...

We’re already in the thick of Spring house hunting season, and as many have come to find out, this year’s search is especially narrowed, as inventory is at a 12 year low. Many buyers will have to move fast on a home, but when it comes to searching and purchasing a home, moving too quickly withou...

you’ve lived in the NW over the past few years, it won’t surprise you to hear that there is a high demand in Seattle’s rental market. The demand has gotten so high, that the low inventory supply is causing there to be multiple offers on apartment properties. Companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Z...

We have established that housing is beginning to get back on track, so what are the best moves to make today? Here are some very useful tips for the buyers, sellers, and owners in today’s real estate market. Homeowners are starting to gain confidence in listing their homes due to the rise in tra...

  Moving into a new place can be stressful in itself, but searching for a new home from across the country can seem like a mountain too massive to tackle. When you don’t know much about the city you’re moving to, it can be difficult to find the right resources and search tools, but here are a few...

While renting might sometimes feel like you're flushing a hefty portion of your income down the drain, as it turns out, renting might make the best financial sense for a few years. According to a reporting from Zillow's breakeven horizon metric, (a system measuring the number of years it takes af...

2013 is looking like a seller’s market but not so much to warrant audaciousness. Inventory in King County is approximately half of what it was from a year ago and this combined with low interest rates is causing homes to sell quickly and at prices much higher than the market low at the beginning ...

The NWMLS released the January 2013 numbers earlier this week and of course the Seattle Times large headline is negative (surprise, surprise).  The Seattle Times headline is "King County home prices dip to March lows" but then they say in the smaller headline that the prices are up 11% from a yea...