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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

2024 Updated UAD and URAR – What does It Mean for You? NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on forecasts for economic factors, SFR zoning and more apartments, appraising and rhetoric, opinion, or anecdotal theories, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. What exactly does this mean?

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The region’s real estate scene in 2023 will be remembered for rising home prices and scant new listings. Welcome to our sixth annual look back at the year that was and to predictions and projections for the coming 12 months in real estate for Seattle/King County and beyond. Buyers and sellers tiptoed through caution.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2023

Compounding the demand is a consumer public determined to stay put for several more years rather than dive into a real estate market clouded by higher interest rates. Compounding the demand is a consumer public determined to stay put for several more years rather than dive into a real estate market clouded by higher interest rates.

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Forecasting the direction of the economy and residential real estate is never easy, particularly in a pandemic and following a mini-recession. Welcome to the fourth annual Living the Dream blog predictions and projections in real estate and beyond. days (November 2021). =. days (November 2021). =. 2 (Freddie Mac).

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Will Springer Realtor

APRIL 11, 2023

The signs are generally pointing in the right direction for our local (and national) residential real estate scene, but it is taking more time than usual to turn a cruise-ship-sized sector around without leaving damage in its wake. Total home sales are up 35% (1956) from the previous month but down 32% YoY. from February but down 9.4%

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Will Springer Realtor

MARCH 14, 2022

This is in no way an effort to downplay the unfolding tragedy or appear tone deaf, but it is a fair question: Will residents in our region face economic challenges so severe that it will affect the real estate market? Never did I expect to be writing in this darkest of decades – only 2-plus years in – about a pandemic followed by war.

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 9, 2021

I have covered this topic both within the newsletter and on my blog and hear from people in real estate about their frustration over the lack of significant action. America’s housing stock is in a dire situation. Shortages are chronic, housing prices skyrocketing. The nation has faced a shortfall of 5.5 million to 6.8

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