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Read MoreI’m pleased to announce that myself along with over 30 of my colleagues at Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty were recognized in the 2021 REAL Trends America’s Best®.
Read MoreAs the Seattle metro area continues to witness skyrocketing home prices, affordability has become an increasingly elusive goal, as is timing the market for developer incentives and today’s historically low, but rising, interest rates. As reported by The Seattle Times, condominium sales in Seattle saw a 121.2 percent increase year-over-year, while median prices jumped 4.5 percent, compared to April 2020.
Read MoreI present to you Sotheby’s 2021's premier issue of Collections, a quarterly newsletter published for the Sotheby's International Realty® network, containing engaging information and news from our companies, brand, and industry.
Read MoreApril 2020 saw a third straight month with residential home price increases in the Seattle metropolitan region leading those of all other cities in the U.S. except for Phoenix. The gains indicate that as foreseen in our recent monthly Case Shiller reports on the RSIR blog, prices have remained stable during the suppression of home sales due to our state’s COVID-19 orders.
Read More"When you go out and see the empty streets, the empty stadiums, the empty train platforms, don't say to yourself, ‘My God, it looks like the end of the world.’
What you're seeing is love in action…”
Read MoreEarlier this year the Washington State Legislature passed a law to permanently stay on daylight saving time, but you’ll still need to set your clocks back come November 3.
Read MoreRecession talk has been up and down in the past few years and homeowners are concerned how that’s going to affect the local housing market. Will it look like what happened in 2008?
Read MoreAfter thirteen months of shrinking gains that turned to outright declines this past spring, Seattle residential prices according to the Case Shiller Home Price Index finally improved in July.
Read MoreThe probability of a high-speed rail line from Seattle to Vancouver, B.C., just got higher. Microsoft announced their plans to invest a second round of funds (over $220,000) into a feasibility study for high-speed ground transportation in the region.
Read MoreThe third quarter market update of 2019 is here and Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty has crunched the numbers with a look at home price trends in Seattle, the Eastside and Bainbridge Island.
Read MoreStatistics from the second quarter of 2019 are here and Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty has crunched the numbers with a look at home price trends in Seattle, the Eastside and Bainbridge Island. The market is now showing an upward trajectory, with home price growth in some markets, a rise in inventory, and favorable interest rates for homebuyers. Below you’ll find a link to each of the reports with some key insights from the Seattle single-family and condominium markets.
Read MoreThe Fed is expected to cut interest rates this month, and while it’s unclear how much of an impact it could have on the overall economy, it could be a great time to investigate your mortgage rate.
Read MoreApple is joining the Seattle’s tech core in South Lake Union, with plans to grow an office of up to 2,000 employees over the next five years.
Read MoreLove it or hate it, a dramatic shift in the Seattle Building Code for single-family residential property owners has been signed by Mayor Durkan. On July 1, 2019 Seattle passed one of the most aggressive housing bills in the country, Council Bill 119544.
Read MoreSPIRE is a brilliant architectural prism at the intersection of downtown Seattle’s most preferred urban neighborhoods. The 41-story condominium tower at 6th Avenue and Wall Street, is now above grade with planned delivery by winter 2020/2021, placing it among the earliest to deliver of new for-sale projects in the pipeline.
Read MoreThough much of Seattle’s tech expansion and news has revolved around Amazon, other key players are expanding their presence at South Lake Union. As GeekWire reported this week, Expedia and Apple are moving along nicely with their new Emerald City campuses.
Read MoreOn Sunday, 9th, Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty and I came together to welcome guests—and a few rays of sunshine—to the Park House to kick off the third annual Madison Park Home & Garden Tour. It was truly a pleasure to oversee this year’s event, which was a great success and raised nearly $5,500 for McGilvra Elementary School.
Read MoreIn late Spring, Washington State’s legislators introduced a new, graduated Real Estate Excise Tax (REET), which replaces the fixed 1.28 percent tax applied evenly across all transactions.
Read MoreAs the recent Bisnow “Seattle Construction & Development Forecast” event outlined, the commercial real estate industry in Seattle is continuing its boom and the city is even looking at ways to lessen the length of time of the permitting and approval process by adding staff.
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