I’ll admit something right up front: I use AI. Sometimes it does something that genuinely makes me wonder how we ever worked without it. Other times I spend 20 minutes trying to get it to make one simple change to an image of my backyard redesign, and I wonder if throwing my laptop out the […]

The final full week of August brought a noticeable shift in the market, with fewer new listings and price reductions, while buyer activity actually picked up. From August 24th through August 30th: New Listings: 174 ↓ from 196 Pending Sales: 190 ↑ from 180 Sold Homes: 125 ↓ from 128 Price Reductions: 192 ↓ from […]

There may not be another real estate market in Western Washington quite like Downtown Seattle. Forget backyards, cul de sacs and three car garages. Downtown is about elevators, views, walkability, amenities and putting yourself in the middle of everything Seattle has to offer. It is also a market where looking at one headline price can […]

If you saw the latest housing headlines this week, one number probably jumped out at you: Seattle home prices are down about 2% from a year ago. According to the latest S&P Cotality Case-Shiller Home Price Index, the Seattle area posted a 1.95% year-over-year decline in June. In fact, Seattle had the weakest annual performance […]