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The market for starter homes is heating up in Seattle with sales rising nearly 4% over June, according to a new report from ...
After years of sluggish recovery from the pandemic, downtown Seattle is regaining its rhythm with foot traffic, apartment ...
Data shows Redmond, Lynwood, Arlington and Gig Harbor among the fastest growing cities since 2020, bringing rapid ...
On the flip side, experts say the rise in local inventory is giving buyers more options than at any point since 2015.
Housing pushes trees out Seattle, like many cities, is in the throes of a housing crunch, with pressure to add thousands of new homes every year and increase density. Single-family zoning is no ...
Sometimes it's parking over trees. Other times, it's housing. From 2010 to 2020, Seattle built just one new home for every three jobs created. And that trend of adding jobs faster than housing ...
This is the second time the Institute for Justice has gone to court over a Seattle program once hailed as a "grand bargain" between the city and developers.
The firm is looking to capitalize on a consequential real-estate trend emerging in major U.S. markets: overleveraged real ...
In one decade, Seattle turned into a vastly riskier place to live for poor people. It became nearly impossible to afford even the cheapest market-rate housing.
Activists in Seattle gather signatures to put a social housing initiative on the ballot. In early 2025, voters passed the measure, which implements a payroll tax on high incomes to fund the ...
SEATTLE — The Seattle City Council approved and ordinance to allow more housing to be built in the SODO neighborhood, near T-Mobile Park and Lumen Field. The ordinance was approved by a 6-3 vote.
Neighborhood residential zones and parks and natural areas saw the biggest losses, at 1.2% and 5.1% respectively. Seattle says it’s working on multiple fronts to reverse that trend.