It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Spring in the Seattle area looks a bit different from usual this year. The median single-family home in King County sold for $875,000 in April, down 12% from a year ago. The…
A report from the Daily Herald in Washington. "'I was putting listings on the market right when the interest rates increased,' said Dafna Shalev, real estate broker in Woodinville. 'The buyers stopped coming. There were no showings. Nothing.' What happened…
A report from Market Watch. "Frederick Warburg Peters, the president of Coldwell Banker Warburg, sounded a grimmer outlook for the Manhattan real-estate market in his own second-quarter market report. 'Throughout the second quarter, that slowdown has accelerated: fewer signed contracts,…
A report from the Everette Daily Herald in Washington. "Active listings in Snohomish County more than doubled in May to 1,182, up from 500 a year ago. Sam Mansour, a broker with John L. Scott Lynnwood, said more sellers put…
A report from The Herald in Washington. "For the 23 Washington counties that the listing service tracks, inventory rose to 15,830 in November, compared to 11,193 a year earlier. Say the words 'housing bubble' and George Moorhead, owner of Bentley…
A report from the Denver Post in Colorado. "Home sales aren’t just slumping big in metro Denver, they are dropping across much of Colorado and in what were some of the hottest markets in the country. Year-over-year single-family home sales…