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

AUGUST 9, 2022

The cities of Seattle and Renton offer pre-approved ADU designs to help streamline the government-approval process which can often be onerous. Don’t get me started about Seattle’s design review exercise!) . The number of new homes for sale fell 19% (4009) across the county from June to July and 9.5% Kirkland gets it too.

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 8, 2022

While the number of new listings in June jumped 8.2% in new listings and 57% in active listings at the start of this month (3256), up 124% from a year ago. Spire was Seattle’s fastest-selling condominium development in 2021, now with a little more than half of all units sold. List: $5.65M ($730/sq.

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Will Springer Realtor

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

It is developing several single-family and multifamily communities in King and Snohomish counties. The company forecasts an 8% YoY increase in new communities for 2021 across the U.S. ” Forward-thinking developers will go beyond trails and lap pools, “which have become ordinary,” suggests the experts from Burns.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 12, 2021

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 and are on the high side for the unit size, with a median price per square foot of roughly $1045 from a sampling of active listings. We are on the right track.

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The seemingly mundane asphalt-covered piece of real estate silently champions the ebb and flow of modern living. Yet, many new home projects across King County (and, honestly, in most urban areas) are brushing aside parking as an extravagance and a burden to include in residential planning. List price: $8.98M ($1273/sq.

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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. The average King County single-family listing sold in May 9.5% months (from 0.7)

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 9, 2021

And, Seattle’s attempt to force building developers to incorporate more affordable homes within their new residential endeavors yielded only 21 units in 2020 out of a swell of 224 construction projects. About 57% of all new housing was classified multifamily (four or more units in one location). List price: $4.698M, $868/sq.

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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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