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 […]

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 […]

Watch a documentary on the history of Woodridge and the surrounding area prepared by Eastside Heritage Center (EHC). history from Tarina Productions on Vimeo.

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 […]