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

MARCH 14, 2023

The number of new listings of all home types (single-family, townhome and condo) in King County climbed 6.4% (1866 units) from January to February, as expected, and total inventory at the start of March (2064) was 111% higher than a year ago. This, along with higher building costs, will lead to a construction slowdown this year.

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Will Springer Realtor

JUNE 13, 2023

Higher mortgage rates make monthly financing payments more expensive – not to mention more frustrating – and can often push homeownership further out of reach for younger buyers. Supply of resale housing (as opposed to new construction) is shrinking across our region. In March, 33% of homes listed for sale in the U.S.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2023

Almost since the start of the pandemic, homeowners have been spending more time enjoying their low-financed houses and condos. They have also been spending oodles of money to shape their residences to meet new living needs – modern and spacious, when possible – as households live in their homes for longer. 2 in the U.S. Portland, Ore.,

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Will Springer Realtor

APRIL 11, 2023

After nearly a year, the housing sector’s contraction is coming to an end,” notes Lawrence Yun, National Association of Realtors® chief economist, speaking about the U.S. Existing-home sales, pending contracts and new-home construction pending contracts have turned the corner and climbed for the past three months.” 

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Will Springer Realtor

JANUARY 9, 2024

The most significant impact of reduced finance costs is the potential for lowering barriers to homeownership, which has reached unprecedented heights in the past two years. 1, that requires buyers wishing to work with a licensed real estate broker to sign a services contract. Olympia also established a law, effective Jan.

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Will Springer Realtor

JANUARY 10, 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 by 30% year-on-year (YoY) – staggering drop-offs. Economists across 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

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The region’s real estate scene in 2023 will be remembered for rising home prices and scant new listings. As the year dims, all eyes fixate on 2024’s potential: a hopeful dance fueled by dreams of lower rates and a wave of new homes for sale. County economists forecast a 2024 decline in new construction, slipping to $9.9B

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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 BY THE NUMBERS. >> The average size of a newly constructed single-family home is now 2524 sq.

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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. >> A full 19,396 apartment units are under construction in Seattle metro, according to a Q2 report from Berkadia, a U.S. . = Zoning laws in the U.S.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 11, 2022

We are now seeing “7s” in front of some rates to new mortgage consumers – a figure not seen since April 2002 – causing applications for new loans to hit a 25-year low this month. ( We are all sensitive to rising interest rates, particularly when attempting to finance the largest purchase of our lives. List: $2.9M ($853/sq.

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 9, 2022

That’s the conclusion of a 2021 report from the Research Institute for Housing America, which signaled added “stress” on housing and housing finance industries in determining risk. The personal-finance site compared states on 34 metrics, such as Millennial employment data, voter turnout and total share of Millennials. CONDO NEWS.

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Will Springer Realtor

JUNE 8, 2022

They include shortages caused by restrictive zoning that limit the number and type of housing units built on a given parcel, a “not in my backyard” resistance to new construction in traditionally single-family-home neighborhoods, and layers of regulations, processes and fees that dissuade developers from building in certain areas.

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