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Concern for Seattle’s Housing Crisis is Rising
Downtown condo resale inventory is anemic and price points in Seattle below $500,000 are vanishing.
Sponsored by Realogics, Inc. Downtown Seattle witnessed fewer condominium resales during the first quarter of 2018 compared with the prior year, largely because there were fewer homes to choose from. The lack of supply is further raising concerns about an affordability crisis. Currently, there are only 44 resale homes available for sale in an urban…
5 Smart Ways Baby Boomers Can Navigate Seattle’s Tough Housing Market
How to plan for the future and take advantage of a seller's market.
Sponsored by Realogics, Inc. Maybe it’s just my age (I prefer “mature” or “grown up” to “old”), but I often consider what lies ahead in the next 20 years. How do I want to spend my free time? Where do I want to spend it? How do I want to live? I find that many of my…
Innovating the Office: Technology Trends Changing the Workplace
What does the future hold for how and where we work?
Sponsored by Realogics, Inc. The way we work is changing, and, not surprisingly, technology is playing a big part in that shift. Conversation about the workplace almost always starts with technology. Indeed, technology is the enabling factor that allows anybody, anytime, to complete work from almost anywhere. As technology is further embedded into the office,…
A Condo Comeback: 10 New Developments in the Puget Sound Pipeline
Market makers say they will sell more than a half-billion dollars in newly built multi-family units by 2020.
Sponsored by Realogics, Inc. What a difference a decade makes. For the first time in ten years, Realogics Group of Companies and its brokers are again representing ten new multi-family, for-sale condominiums and townhomes in downtown Seattle and surrounding neighborhoods. Although the project marketing specialists admit the current condo cycle is just a fraction of the…
Top 10 Tech Transformations for a Smarter Home
How modern home design is taking the fiction out of sci-fi.
Sponsored by Realogics, Inc. The concept of the smart home is no longer reserved for sci-fi flicks and Jetson-esque cartoons, which just a few short years ago may have seemed lifetimes away. Increasingly more homes are becoming connected, intelligent, and changing the way we live our daily lives, moving us closer to the once fictionalized…
Seattle Homebuilding: 10 Things to Consider for Custom Construction
Luxury builder, JayMarc Homes, shares the secrets of delivering results in a competitive housing market.
Sponsored by Realogics, Inc. Throughout the Puget Sound region, buyers are navigating an incredibly competitive market, facing issues such as multiple offers, mismatched life schedules, and the right product but the wrong location. Many emotions come into play when taking the big step towards building a custom home, including excitement, fear, nervousness and joy, and a competitive…
The Condo Conundrum: 10 Reasons Why There’s a ‘For Sale’ Shortage in Seattle
Despite the city's rapid growth, it's not easy to find a condo in Seattle.
Sponsored by Realogics, Inc. Seattle is the fastest-growing large city in the US with home prices rising more than any other metro area in the nation. That means developers are building new condominiums at a record clip, right? Nope, it’s actually the opposite. There is currently a real shortage of in-city condominiums, resulting in high median…
10 Most Prominent Transportation Initiatives in Puget Sound
Seattle’s growth comes with a price for commuters, which will test our patience and potentially change where and how we live.
Sponsored by Realogics, Inc. In 1907, when Seattle annexed Ballard, Ravenna and West Seattle, transportation meant nothing more than sailing routes, roads, bridges and sometimes cow paths. Today, transportation networks are technological systems whose scopes range from international airport instruments to GPS-enabled devices on your dashboard or in your pocket. New applications are transforming every…
Seattle Listed as #1 City for Chinese Homebuyers
FutureCast Forum members outline the top ten reasons why Seattle is so popular.
Sponsored by Realogics, Inc. Ni Hao, Seattle! We’re number one in the eyes of mainland Chinese homebuyers exploring overseas investment in real estate. That’s according to Juwai.com, a popular home search site within China, and this finding is tracking with other data points according to local brokers that specialize in international homebuyers. “Seattle is most certainly…
10 Game-Changing Policies and Drivers Affecting Development in the Puget Sound
William Hillis, Broker & Research Editor at Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty breaks down what this means for the future of Seattle and its surroundings.
Sponsored by Realogics, Inc. Perhaps it’s living together in a place of such abundant beauty and economic opportunity that brings out so many competing ideas about what our city and the region should look like, how people should live and commute, and what powers government should exert. Together with ever-greater diversity, attitudes on these matters in…
Millennials Do Want to Own Homes in Seattle, But Can They?
How a progressive mortgage lender is catering to the city's unique real estate micro-climate to make homeownership possible.
Sponsored by Realogics, Inc. The assumption that Millennials prefer renting is a myth, according to a recently released 2017 Zillow Group Report on consumer housing trends. Of the 13,000 consumers surveyed nationally, 42-percent were looking to buy their first home. These topics were discussed during the University of Washington Rundstad Center for Real Estate Studies that…