Matthew Gardner recently published his Q3 2021 Western Washington Real Estate Market Update. Here are a few key highlights: Despite more listings becoming available, the ratio of pending sales (demand) to active listings (supply) showed pending sales outpacing listings by a factor of 4.6 Thurston (+14.3%), Snohomish (+10.8%), and King Counties (+7.8%) saw the biggest […]

If you think selling your home during the holidays is a bad idea, think again! Here are 10 Reasons why it makes sense to sell now before inventory increases in the spring. To demonstrate what this video says, I recently listed a home for sale (on 12/16) in Shoreline. There was little else for sale […]

As you probably have probably heard, home inventory levels are at record low levels. There is a complex set of reasons why this has happened, some of them dating back to the housing crash of 2007+ when home builders went bankrupt and never came back. Recently, in Q3, more investors entered the housing purchase market, […]

Curious about mortgage rates? In this video, Matthew Gardner shares his perspective on how rates are set, what affects them, and where industry experts predict rates to go this next year. As a general rule of thumb, good financial news is bad for interest rates. https://www.windermere.com/…/10-25-2021-housing-and…