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Spokane’s residential market has settled into a pattern that rewards discipline and punishes nostalgia. Sellers who list based on what they remember from a few years ago – when homes drew multiple offers within days – are finding that the market has moved on without them, according to Kim Hagel-Barkley of The Barkley Group in ...

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 ...

The Seattle real estate market has never been simple to read, and as of mid-2026, it has become even harder to generalize. Depending on the price point, the neighborhood, and the buyer profile, the experience of purchasing or selling a home in the greater Seattle area can look dramatically different from one transaction to the ...

Tucked into the northeastern edge of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, Sequim occupies an unusual position in the Pacific Northwest real estate landscape. While neighboring markets have experienced sharp swings in pricing and demand, this small retirement-oriented community of roughly 33,000 residents has maintained a quiet steadiness that is drawing attention from buyers well beyond its traditional ...

Major technology companies are requiring employees to relocate back to expensive urban centers, reversing the pandemic-era migration to more affordable states. Scott Ferree, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at MiniMoves, reports that workers are leaving states like Florida and returning to high-cost tech hubs such as San Francisco, Seattle, and Los Angeles as ...

The Bay Area’s commercial real estate lending market is undergoing a significant shift. Artificial intelligence companies are driving new apartment demand, while traditional office markets continue to face pressure. This divergence is creating opportunities for lenders and borrowers across the region. Marc Lipsett, Director of Loan Production at Walker Realty Capital, observes these trends from ...

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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