In Seattle, home prices posted a 9.9% year-over-year gain in August, compared to a 14.5% gain in July. Month over month, prices fell 3.9%.

Month over month in September, existing-home sales slid 1.5% to 4.71 million, which is 23.8% lower than the year before. 

New home construction missed analyst estimates in September, falling 8.1% month over month to an annual rate 1,439,000 homes, according to government statistics. 

Seattle’s year-over-year housing inventory growth was 78.7%, 10th among major metro areas.

Approximately 58% of homebuyers say they’d be willing to purchase a haunted house — and nearly 25% think they already have.

The markets cooling fastest are many of the same places that saw the biggest spikes in home prices during the last three years. 

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.

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

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.

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.