Read the latest news about residential and commercial real estate in the Seattle area and Pacific Northwest. Topics include home sales and prices; rent and mortgage rates; apartment, condo and single-family housing markets; development, skyscrapers, construction and office space; and affordable housing issues. Some of the players in the marketplace include Vulcan, Zillow, Redfin and Case-Shiller.
The Northwest Multiple Listing Service has settled with the brokerage Compass and agreed to loosen its practices regarding private home listings.
Rocket Companies named Alessio Sanfilippo, Meta's former vice president of insights for Reality Labs, as Redfin's new CEO.
A whopper is hitting the real estate market: The Bellevue Collection, a 5.5 million-square-foot mixed-use complex in downtown Bellevue.
Two small islands just off the coast represent a rare opportunity for the city to add a significant amount of housing on land abandoned by...
Opponents of the "millionaires tax" say it's spurring an exodus of wealthy residents. Supporters say those fears are made up. Both sides are oversimplifying.
A developer spent $57 million turning an old seminary into a hotel at Saint Edward State Park. Just five years after opening, it's pausing business...
The state's largest collective of agents is pushing for a slice of home shoppers’ attention amid industry debates about transparency.
Former Portland entrepreneur Mark Wattles, best known for founding the Hollywood Video chain, purchased the 32-acre peninsula in 1994.
Vlad Popach admitted to damaging or cutting down more than 140 trees. Then his luxury home sold for $1 million over asking price.
Zillow settled with the FTC after it claimed the real estate giants violated federal antitrust laws by entering into an illegal agreement to dismantle Redfin...
A few developers are pitching factory-built homes as the way of the future, trying to sell higher-quality homes in a new context: the typical suburban...
Many people think of real estate in terms of “leaving it to the kids.” The reality isn’t so straightforward.
After running on promises to tackle affordability, Mayor Katie Wilson will launch a task force to consider ways to speed up housing construction.
Since 2020, Highline College has paired students facing homelessness with housing vouchers provided by King County Housing Authority. It seems to be working.
Decaying electrical cables, buried in the 1960s to beautify some of Seattle’s wealthiest neighborhoods, are the cause of the city’s long power outages.
The reopening is part of a multimillion-dollar push to find space for thousands of workers who had been working remotely.
Fewer than half of available rentals in the Seattle area have two or more bedrooms, the smallest share among major metro areas across the country.
The city of Kirkland plans to turn a former Mormon church into a community center.
Pending sales are falling faster in Seattle than in any other major metro area in the U.S., a sign that layoffs at major tech firms...
The move to allow smaller elevators is catching on in a few states but faces opposition from the U.S. elevator industry and others.