A correction doesn’t seem likely this year, but things could improve in 2024 if mortgage rates settle around 5%, says economist Matthew Gardner. During the five years leading up to the pandemic, U.S. home prices were rising at an average rate of 5.5% per year. However, as we all know, Covid-19 led the Federal Reserve […]

  Hello there, I’m Windermere Real Estate’s Chief Economist Matthew Gardner and welcome to this month’s episode of Monday with Matthew. You may remember that at the end of last year, I published my Top-10 Predictions for 2023 and, as we hit the mid-year mark, some of you have been asking me how well my forecasts have […]

After years of being the state’s top employer by number of job postings, the tech sector has been surpassed by healthcare. A recent report indicates that since April of this year, six of Washington’s top ten employers looking to fill jobs were healthcare companies. In April 2023, Providence Health boasted the highest number of job […]