Buyers & Sellers The housing market isn’t normalizing—Zillow predicts the wildest home price swing still awaits Depleted, stretched, and disheartened. That’s how a lot of home shoppers, who’ve lost home bid after bid over the past year, are feeling these days. When it comes to timing, they’ve certainly gotten the short end of the stick. Over the past 12 months, U.S. home prices are up 18.8%—an uptick larger than any 12-month […]
Buyers & Sellers Monday with Matthew: The Impact of Rising Mortgage Rates The Impact of Rising Mortgage Rates Hello there. I’m Windermere Real Estate’s Chief Economist Matthew Gardner. Welcome to the latest episode of Monday with Matthew. Over the past several weeks I’ve gotten a lot of messages from you wanting me to discuss the spike in mortgage rates that followed comments by the Federal Reserve, but […]
Real Estate Updates 2022 March Seattle Real Estate Update
Real Estate Updates 2022 March Eastside Real Estate Update  
Real Estate Updates Seattle a bedroom town? How the Bellevue boom is echoing around the region When I wrote recently that Bellevue had become pricier than Manhattan, I noted that the Eastside city still lagged behind the king of insane and unaffordable real estate, San Francisco. But a local agent suggested it might be only a matter of time. “We expect that last record to fall sometime this summer, with Bellevue […]
Real Estate Updates Real Estate Investors Are Buying a Record Share of U.S. Homes Investors bought 18.4% of the U.S. homes that were purchased in the fourth quarter, a record high. Investor demand is stronger than ever as home prices increase, allowing investors to charge higher rents and sell flipped homes for higher prices. Real estate investors bought roughly 80,000 U.S. homes worth a total of $50 billion in […]
Real Estate Updates History of Woodridge & surrounding area Watch a documentary on the history of Woodridge and the surrounding area prepared by Eastside Heritage Center (EHC). history from Tarina Productions on Vimeo.
Buyers & Sellers Prosperity bomb 2.0? Bellevue passes Manhattan in housing prices For years Seattle has been in a high state of angst, or yearning in some cases, about the prospect that our fishing village was morphing into the new Manhattan. We had it all wrong. It turns out once-sleepy Bellevue was sprinting there first. You’ve probably been rubbernecking, as I have, at these insane stories about […]
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Real Estate Updates 2022 FEBRUARY SEATTLE REAL ESTATE UPDATE
Real Estate Updates 2022 FEBRUARY EASTSIDE REAL ESTATE UPDATE
Buyers & Sellers Beyond Supply And Demand: Today’s Tech Is Helping House Prices Skyrocket Falling interest rates and the pandemic are the top two reasons for house prices skyrocketing over the last year and a half but there’s another reason no one talks about. Today’s technology simply makes it easier for house prices to increase when buyer demand increases. If house prices are indeed more sensitive to increases in […]
Real Estate Updates Top 10 Predictions for 2022 Matthew Gardner’s Top 10 Predictions for 2022 1. Prices will continue to rise There are some who believe that U.S. home prices will drop in the coming year given last year’s extremely rapid pace of growth, but I disagree. I don’t expect prices to fall; however, the pace of appreciation will slow significantly, rising by […]
Real Estate Updates Homebuyers: Buckle up for another brutal spring housing market It’s usually around this time of year, with the holiday season firmly in the rearview mirror, that homebuyers and sellers alike begin to make their way back into the market. That will continue to pick up each week until March arrives. At that point, the industry’s busy season—known as the spring real estate market—will be […]
Real Estate Updates Real Estate Is Emerging as a Hedge Against Roaring Inflation Those seeking alternative investments from stocks and bonds may turn to the housing market, but that strategy still presents risks. Surging markets spurred a buying frenzy for everything from stocks and cryptocurrencies to new homes over the last two years. Now, with inflation at a nearly 40-year high and at least three priced-in rate hikes, […]
Real Estate Updates 2022 January Seattle Real Estate Update
Real Estate Updates 2022 January Eastside Real Estate Update
Real Estate Updates How long can the global housing boom last? Three fundamental forces mean it could endure for some time yet NOVA SCOTIA’S largest city is known for a few things: a big national-security conference that takes place every autumn; a huge explosion that took place in 1917, causing immense devastation; and a small but impressive wine industry. It may soon be known for something […]
Real Estate Updates Seattle’s real estate year: historic, record-breaking and disturbing 2021 records show Seattle’s real estate year was crazier than we thought, and 2022 might be even crazier! This year has been a record-breaking, historic, and occasionally quite worrying year for Seattle real estate. But what were the most striking trends of 2021, and what do they help us predict about 2022? As the year […]
Real Estate Updates New Zoning of East Main Site in Bellevue May Create 1,500 Homes Near Light Rail Last week, Bellevue City Council approved a Land Use Code Amendment (LUCA) to allow for increased building density on a 60-acre site to the east of the future East Main light rail station. The unceremonious nature of Council’s vote to approve the LUCA at its last meeting of the year belied its importance as the […]
Real Estate Updates Amazon’s second chance: Bellevue gives tech giant an opportunity to reshape its regional legacy GeekWire explores what’s fueling the rise of Bellevue, Wash., the fast-growing tech hub located just east of Seattle. In this editorial series, we’ll explore key issues shaping this ever-changing city. BELLEVUE, Wash. — Amazon is poised to transform a major swath of this city, much as the company reshaped Seattle during the past 15 years. But […]