Washington

For decades, Seattle has been primarily a city of homeowners, but those days may be coming to an end. It's one of the many ways that the city's current population boom has been transformative.

Pending new home sales increased both on a month-to-month and annual basis, benefitting from the current low mortgage rate environment, although they are still constrained by inventory issues, a Meyers Research report said.

Last month, brokers anticipated local residential markets swinging, if ever so slightly, to give buyers more bargaining power.

The real action in home prices lately isn't in King County, Wash., where price growth has stabilized.

Spokane County, Wash., home sales spiked in October, marking the second month in a row for year-over-year sales increases since 2018.

How's this for a flashback to 2017? Seattle home prices rose faster in October than they have for a year.

The FDIC ordered the Seattle bank to pay a nearly $1.4 million fine tied to improper agreements with real estate brokers and homebuilders.

Home sales registered their first year-over-year increase in September for the first time since 2018, as sales picked up toward the end of the prime buying season.

Summer sales of single-family homes in Thurston County, Wash., ended with a bang in August as sales nearly matched last year's red-hot results and the median price climbed almost 10% over August 2018.

Soaring home prices are pushing homebuyers out of walkable neighborhoods into those that are more car-dependent, Redfin said.

For the second month in a row, Seattle is the only major American city where home prices were lower than a year ago.

Seattle is poised to get a new $1 billion development steps from Amazon's sprawling urban campus as part of a major land sale by the city.

For months, Seattle-area home prices have been teetering between growth and decline.

High demand, low inventory and multiple offers on homes are common in Spokane, Wash., which has become one of the hottest real estate markets in the nation.

High demand and low inventory in Spokane County, Wash., continued to push median home prices up in June.

Seattle's housing market isn't cooling quite as fast it was earlier this spring, but prices are still dropping as inventories build and would-be buyers continue to search outside the city limits for better prices.

All of the Seattle company's directors, including CEO Mark Mason, were backed by shareholders despite a challenge by Blue Lion Partners.

The Puget Sound housing market continues to splinter into hot and cold sectors — with substantially more heat the farther south you move — but the trend may be moderating as buyers and sellers adjust their expectations.

After years as an oasis of affordability, Tacoma is rapidly losing its status as a refuge for homebuyers priced out of places like Seattle.

An institution that services housing finance authority loans is putting $2.65 billion in servicing rights from Washington state up for bid through the Mortgage Industry Advisory Corp.