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For months, publicly traded homebuilders like Lennar and Pulte have held an advantage over individual sellers in slower markets: the ability to offer buyers below-market mortgage rates. In Kitsap County, Washington – a military-anchored peninsula separated from Seattle by Puget Sound – a broker has adapted that mechanism for private resale listings, using rate lock ...

In some of Seattle’s most desirable neighborhoods, the person bidding against you for an older home is not another family. It is an investor who plans to tear the house down and build two or three townhomes in its place. Recent zoning changes in Seattle have made this strategy legal and profitable, according to Eric ...

The narrative around Seattle’s high-end real estate market has taken a particular shape in recent months: wealthy residents are leaving, the market is cooling, and the Pacific Northwest’s appeal is fading. On the ground, the picture depends on which price tier you’re watching. Below roughly $4 to $5 million, well-positioned homes still draw multiple offers, ...

The Seattle housing market in mid-2026 presents a study in contrasts. Inventory has risen meaningfully from its pandemic-era lows, yet prices have largely held firm. Buyers are cautious but still active. Sellers are adjusting expectations, slowly. Against this backdrop, one segment of the market is quietly gaining momentum: Latino homebuyers and investors, many of them ...

People who live in Sequim, Washington rarely want to leave, and a growing number of buyers from Seattle and California are discovering why. Sequim sits in the northeastern corner of the Olympic Peninsula in what locals call a “blue hole,” a rare weather phenomenon where surrounding mountains block most of the rain. While Seattle gets ...

Seattle’s housing market is sending mixed signals: inventory is rising, yet prices remain firm. The explanation is that the market has divided into distinct price tiers, each behaving differently. The experience a buyer or seller faces depends almost entirely on the price range. Gina Guajardo, broker and founder of Avanza Real Estate Team at eXp ...

The gap between Houston’s residential market and its coastal neighbor shows what happens when short-term rental speculation meets a correction. Harris County, Texas, currently has roughly six months of housing inventory – enough to classify it as a balanced-to-soft market where sellers need to price carefully and present homes in strong condition. But the sharper ...

The U.S. rental market built aggressively during the pandemic era, particularly in Sunbelt cities like Nashville, Austin, and Dallas. Now much of that new inventory, especially high-end apartments, is sitting partially empty, competing for renters whose budgets have tightened considerably since construction began. The disconnect is straightforward: developers built expensive Class A apartments in markets ...

In most American markets, holding a property for ten or twelve years builds a cushion of equity. In Manhattan, that assumption no longer holds across large segments of the market, according to Nikolay Afanasyev, Founder & CEO of CITY SPHERE Property Group, a boutique brokerage covering Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. Rising building carrying costs, ...

For buyers waiting on the largest purchase of their lives, the appraisal process is one of the last black boxes in a home purchase. Turnaround time isn’t a single number; it’s the sum of scheduling, inspection, report production, quality review, and any revision cycles that follow, and thin appraiser panels and uncontrolled revision cycles are ...

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