Category: Seattle Real Estate News
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What to Expect in 2022: Seattle & Bellevue Real Estate Market Update
Are you planning on buying or selling a home in Seattle or in Bellevue (or anywhere on the Eastside) this year? Are you just feeling curious about what’s going on in real estate? We’re here to update you on what to expect in local real estate as we head into 2022. Here’s a quick overview…
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A Bellevue Home Listed for $900,000 Just Received 57 Offers
2021 has gotten off to an *intense* start, to say the least. At the beginning of January, we did a blog post on Seattle + the Eastside’s real estate market. One of the things we talked about was how much median home prices in Bellevue went up from 2019 to 2020. Here’s a little review:…
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Seattle & Bellevue Real Estate Market Update: Homes are HOT & Here’s What You Need to Know About Selling Your Condo
In 2020, we saw homebuyer patterns shift dramatically, and these trends are continuing into 2021. If we had to sum up current King County real estate trends in just 2 quick takeaways, here they are: Single-family homes are like GOLD. Condo sales are down nearly in every area in King County. Now I’m going to…
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Winter is Coming & Houses Are HOT in Seattle!
Let’s just say that this has been one busy 4th quarter for the Get Happy at Home Seattle real estate team. We’ve never been this busy in September and October. For awhile, I was venturing a guess that buyers and sellers alike had simply moved on from the craziness around the pandemic and got back…
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Modern Day Redlining & How to Be Anti-Racist When Choosing a School in Seattle
When we’re helping our clients search for a home, there are a few major considerations that are on most people’s minds. For those with kids (or those who plan to have kids in the near future), schools are almost always a top priority. People want to know where the “good” schools are, and the truth…
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COVID-19 Real Estate Market Observations (June 2020)
Our nation is navigating a very interesting real estate market right now. On the one hand, home prices are up and homes are selling. Interest rates are hovering around 2.9% to 3.1% which gives many buyers good cause for purchasing a home. On the other hand, there are so many factors at play right now,…
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What $1 Million Can Get You in These Seattle Neighborhoods
In spring of 2020, Seattle’s median home price is $767,906, and from April 2019 to April 2020 we’ve seen a YOY increase of 15% in the greater Seattle area. But what type of home (and how much home) you can get will vary a lot depending on neighborhood, and each micro-neighborhood has its own nuanced…
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Where You Can Get a $500,000 Home AND a Reasonable Commute into Downtown Seattle
As of February 2020, the median home price in Seattle was at about $750k. This means that a home for $500k around here is consider a “good deal” by many. We started to think about which neighborhoods in Seattle and nearby cities you can get a great single-family home for $500k AND have a commute…
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RSL Zoning: Will This Help to Improve the Look of Seattle?
To be honest with you, until I looked up all of the zoning requirements for Residential Small Lot (RSL) Zoning, I did not realize how messed up Seattle’s housing requirements are and just how these rules encouraged ugly development. Now, I’m not saying that townhouses or mid-rises are inherently ugly, but there doesn’t seem to…
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Welcome to Our Quarterly Fireside Chat with Matt About Seattle’s Real Estate Market
So here we are at the end of April. I love April because this is the time of the year the market reveals itself to me. In other words, there is enough data to see how we are looking for the year. On the back of so much weird, and hyperbolic news about our market,…