Looking ahead, CoreLogic expects the year-over-year pace of home-price appreciation to slow to 3.5% by August 2023. 

The average median home size varies drastically across the country, according to American Home Shield’s 2022 American Home Size Index.

Market volatility is causing more and more homebuyers to delay or cancel plans to make a purchase.

Washington scored well “across most factors,” the study said, and it finished second to Delaware in the overall rankings.

Rising mortgage rates have led to a substantial increase in the number of markets considered overvalued.

Mortgage rates continue to fluctuate by nearly half a percentage point every month, leaving homebuyers facing the most volatile three-month period they’ve seen since 1987.

“Homeownership remains largely unaffordable for the majority of homebuyers in the majority of markets across the country,” said Rick Sharga, executive vice president of market intelligence at ATTOM.

The price index dropped in Seattle, too, declining 3.06% from June to July, the second-largest drop among metros in the 20-city composite index behind only San Francisco.

While 23% of residential Realtors claim they have feared for their safety while on the job, 98% reported that they have never been the victim of a crime while at work.

In Seattle, the bidding-war rate actually grew, as 33.9% of Redfin offers faced competition in August

Sales of new homes in the U.S. jumped 28.8% between July and August, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.  

Seattle had one of the highest ratios of people moving in vs. those moving out during the first half of the year, a recent analysis found. 

The Seattle area’s median single-family home price jumped from $285,000 to $698,600 over 10 years.

The median existing-home price for all housing types in August was $389,500, a 7.7% rise from the year before. 

The NAR’s Community Aid and Real Estate (CARE) Report shows that REALTOR® associations donated a median of $12,070 this past year, a 20% increase over 2020.

New-home construction posted a 12.2% month-over-month increase in August, thanks in large part to a significant jump in multifamily building.