Washington

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

The Spokane County, Wash., housing market continues to show resilience during the coronavirus pandemic as the median closing price skyrocketed to a record-breaking $317,000 in August.

Like much during the pandemic, the latest news on home prices inspires a definite sense of deja vu.

Squeezed up by a combination of low supply and high demand, home prices broke records in nearly every major Washington county last month, even as the pandemic's onslaught continued to wreak havoc with other parts of the economy.

It's a tough time to be shopping for a home around Seattle. Blame the coronavirus pandemic.

Despite a statewide stay-at-home order, massive job losses and an uncertain economic outlook, home prices in the Seattle area zoomed up faster in April than any large metro in the country save Phoenix.

Starwood Capital Group missed two monthly payments on securitized debt tied to five shopping malls anchored by bankrupt department stores including Sears and J.C. Penney.

The Spokane, Wash., housing market has shown little signs of slowing during the pandemic.

Typically, housing-market activity strengthens through the spring before peaking in May, but last month, many metrics of housing-market activity fell by double digits, compared both with last month and with last year.

It's now definitive: Before coronavirus hit, the Seattle area's home market was hotter than almost anywhere else in the country.

A deadly pandemic seemingly did little to slow down Western Washington's real estate markets in March, according to data from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service.

Even as concern over the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus mounts, the most recent data on area home sales from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service shows the market for Seattle-area residential realty remains hot.

The Spokane County, Wash., median home price continued to rise, but sales held steady in February, according to the Spokane Association of Realtors.

Growth in Puget Sound home prices accelerated as 2019 drew to a close, topping national averages for the first time all year, according to the latest S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index.

While Seattle was the nation's fastest-rising housing market between 2016 and 2018, Tacoma now holds that dubious honor, according to Redfin.

Last May, Redfin elevated Tacoma, Wash., on the nation's real estate map with a report saying the city was the nation's hottest market.

Thurston County, Wash., home sellers are in total control.

Falling interest rates, strong job growth and declining inventories could be setting the conditions for a spring reprise of the painfully hot housing market of 2017, Seattle area real estate agents say.

The Spokane, Wash., real estate market remains extremely tight and active, with relatively few houses available, high demand and rising home prices mirroring national trends.

If you're in the market for a home in Walla Walla, Wash., options may feel a little slim lately.