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Restb.ai to integrate with Black Knight

Housing Wire

Agents will be able to spend significantly less time on manually entering listings, enabling them to focus instead on interacting with homebuyers and sellers.” Using the listing photos uploaded by the agent, Restb.ai automatically detects each image’s interior and exterior features, architecture style, and room type.

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SEATTLE ‘WALKING’ TOWARDS URBAN CONNECTEDNESS

Will Springer Realtor

The market is spooking many potential buyers and sellers thanks to stubbornly high mortgage interest rates. Only buyers and sellers who must move are doing so. The few homes that are available are selling quickly and at or above list price.” fewer new listings, the number of sales rose 1.7% While there were 5.8%

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CAN HOUSING SHORTAGE CATCH UP TO EASTSIDE DEMAND?

Will Springer Realtor

just as Google opens another office building in Kirkland and Microsoft expands its 120-structure Redmond campus with plans for 17 new office buildings. All this tech construction gives new meaning to IT architecture! “A What may be truly impressive are the sellers, now empty-nesters after raising eight children in this home!)

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IS THE HOUSING MARKET HEADED FOR A CRASH?

Will Springer Realtor

Even if a household faced the prospect of foreclosure, buyers would be happy to take the home off an owner’s hands – likely at a profit for sellers – while providing needed inventory. The spring season is nearly over and the number of listings hitting the market has already started to decline, a few weeks earlier than most years.

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PREDICTIONS, PARKING, POLLUTED PIPES

Will Springer Realtor

That, in turn, will finally move the market forward with additional sellers and buyers. Only 1513 listings hit the market in the month for all home types, a devastating 30% decline in one month. The Eastside led the way with a 33% drop-off in new listings (420) and Seattle fell 31% (586).

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FINDING THE KEY TO UNLOCK ‘STUCK’ HOMEOWNERSHIP RATE

Will Springer Realtor

. >> Homeowners are open to space-saving tradeoffs in new construction, with 85% willing to consider island seating over a separate dining space in the kitchen. After a continued rise in sales activity through March, the number of Seattle listings under contract and new listings have eased.

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IN DIRE NEED OF GENERATIONAL RESPONSE TO HOUSING SHORTFALL

Will Springer Realtor

Some highlights from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service (through July): The combined number of condo, townhome and single-family homes on the market as of Aug. However, we are miles from a balanced market, with King County total active listings still 31% fewer than this time last year. The sellers are seeking $17.98M, $2811/sq.