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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The spring selling season of 2026 has brought an unexpected chill to Pierce County’s housing market. After renewed activity in February and March suggested a return to more balanced conditions, the market stalled sharply in mid-to-late April. For agents working in the Tacoma area daily, the change was hard to miss. Liz Johnson, Team Lead ...

The real estate industry’s digital transformation may have hit a surprising roadblock, according to one Pacific Northwest broker who says the rush toward online platforms is missing a fundamental truth about how people buy and sell homes. Ellen Bohn, managing partner at The Agency Camano Island, argues that physical brokerage offices continue to play a ...

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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