Will Springer Realtor

JULY 13, 2023

Our urban area accounts for about half of the city’s economic activity, and the Seattle Chamber noted that rising office vacancies coupled with less construction could lead to $2B in decreased revenue. We’ll have new incentives, and quite frankly, this will inform our budget,” he said. New single-family-home listings rose 3.8%

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Will Springer Realtor

JANUARY 11, 2023

The number of new listings for all home types – single-family, townhomes and condos combined – in King (887) fell 47% from November and declined 36% from December 2021. Homes going under contract (Pending sales) dropped 25% from the previous month and 30% year-on-year (YoY) – staggering drop-offs.

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 15, 2023

The season has been shaped by slumping new listings, a slowly climbing number of homes sitting on the market from previous months, fewer closed sales compared to last year and prices moving plus/minus five percentage points year-on-year (YoY). monthly decline in available Seattle listings (793). The county saw a 4.9% drop (542).

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Will Springer Realtor

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

fewer new listings, the rate of sales rose 1.7% Two data points stood out from the latest report by the Northwest Multiple Listing Service: The aforementioned new listings for all homes in the county – 2684 – is at a low not seen for an August since records were shared with brokers (like me) dating back to the mid-1990s.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2023

month backlogs of contract work, as of Q4 (latest data available), which is down from the peak of 4.8 Legislation related to transit-oriented development did not pass. Except for the pandemic year of 2020, last month was the slowest April since at least 2008 when easy access to Northwest Multiple Listing Service data became available.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Suburban residents can be almost assured of the peaceful enjoyment of their home without worrying about a neighbor constructing a rollercoaster or baseball stadium next door. The effort was led by lawyer Edward Bassett, who went on to develop freeways and parkways. . = Zoning laws in the U.S. The benefits of zoning are innumerable.

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 11, 2022

This year’s “cold down” is stark, with 36% fewer new listings and about 26% fewer homes under contract (Pendings) for all King County home types combined as well as single-family structures alone – and that’s simply from October to November. A little more than a third of inventory is under contract. Prices declined 5.4%

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Will Springer Realtor

JUNE 13, 2023

It’s true, there is a welcome increase in new listings from month to month – up 18% across all home types in King from April and 19% higher for the single-family-home category – but isn’t that what you would expect in the typically busiest periods of the housing season? In March, 33% of homes listed for sale in the U.S.

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 11, 2023

The county saw the combined number of single-family, townhome and condo listings increase in June by 4.4% While that percentage may appear strong, it’s nothing compared to the April-to-May rise of 18%, signaling a probable cooling of new listings in the future. New single-family-home listings rose 3.8%

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2022

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 While these are promising developments, there will always be the affordability question. million sq.

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 9, 2022

. >> The City of Seattle includes about 375,000 homes and estimates it needs to build 152,000 market-rate units by 2045 to catch up with the city’s growing population, according to the Office of Planning and Community Development. The number of new homes for sale fell 19% (4009) across the county from June to July and 9.5%

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 11, 2022

People love experiences to fill their memory bank and social media feed – and real estate developers are listening. Residents want to enjoy memorable moments within their community, according to research from The New Homes Trends Institute. The number of new listings in the previous month and remaining on the market as of Oct.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Construction could start as soon as 2022 on an ambitious three-tower project known as Cloudvue. As part of the project, developers are sketching out plans for a pair of office towers at least 41 stories tall on a 4.6-acre New listings are up 6.3% Condo sales are in a similar boat, with new listings higher – by 4.3%

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 12, 2021

Now, home builders would need to construct as many as 1.2 Housing starts – the number of units builders would begin if development kept pace for the next 12 months – increased 19% nationally to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.7 This was the fastest pace for combined single-family and multi-family construction since June 2006.

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Will Springer Realtor

JUNE 8, 2022

Well, I am only a single real estate professional with one opinion but, for me, the solution includes enacting a blend of corporate and federal dollars toward incentivizing the development of affordable for-purchase housing that targets under-served communities whose residents would otherwise find homeownership difficult to achieve.

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Will Springer Realtor

JUNE 9, 2021

One aspect of rising housing prices is ballooning materials costs for new home builders. You have read here before how lumber prices have soared about 250% in the past year, prompting real concern among developers who are seeing profits dwindle. million people work in residential construction, or about 2.8% >> About 4.4

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 9, 2021

Urban planners have a name for it: the 15-minute neighborhood and it is already in development in parts of the country, including Seattle. Where would you like to see this type of neighborhood development? Canadian developer Westbank is on point for the residential project, its third underway in the city. Send me a message.

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