The real estate market in Seattle is still in high gear. We anticipated having the traditional lull this summer, as vaccines have allowed people to take their long-delayed family vacations and some exhausted buyers have stepped back to regroup and re-energize....
What a difference a year makes. One year ago, life skidded to a stop in the still-early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, as we looked at everything with uncertainty and not a little fear. Workers were sent home, some businesses shut down completely, and the real...
As we look toward the end of a year in which everything, even our most cherished holiday traditions, has been turned on its head, there are reasons to be hopeful. This year has taught us some great lessons about being resilient and able to adapt to big cha...
Editor’s Note: In December, the Queen Anne & Magnolia News and Madison Park Times released our Annual Manual, featuring different aspects and points of view about Seattle. Chris Sudore’s column is an extension of the Annual Manual we are proud to featu...
Today’s a busy real estate day. Since the restrictions on real estate activity loosened in June, every day has been like this. All of the bottled up business with no traditional spring market surged and shifted to June, July and August. We mentioned this was...
Before the COVID-19 crisis, all signs pointed to 2020’s real estate market being one for the record books, with sales volume and asking prices surpassing the highs of 2017’s record-setting sales. To mirror that stat, my team had a record number of cl...
This is NOT a COVID-19 tell-all.
Over the past few weeks, many of you have reached out by phone, email, or text with questions about our real estate market. What we’re facing today is drastically different from the prior “Great Recession,” which was c...
The 2019 real estate market in Seattle ended up looking a lot like the 2018 market, and it’s a good predictor of what we’ll see in the year ahead. We closed out last year with a bang — a ferocious fall filled with busy buyers after a lazy summer. In f...
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Reading the doom-and-gloom headlines about Seattle’s real estate market is an echo of what happened this exact time last year — it’s like wash, rinse, repeat. You have to look at the data and understand consumer behavior to know tha...