Article

The Shorter Short Sale

Want to save time on a short-sale purchase? Be the second bidder.

09/16/2010 By Matthew Halverson

Article

Hot ’Hoods: Queen Anne

The extended first-time homebuyer credit helped buoy business into the early summer months, but sales slowed after that. Queen Anne is part of only one area in Seattle that didn’t slow down from June to July.

09/15/2010 By Matthew Halverson

Article

Hot Hoods: Wallingford

Seattle doesn't require chicken owners to register their little cluckers, so it’s anyone’s guess which nabe has the largest poultry population. But as the home of Seattle Tilth, Wallingford is plenty fowl-friendly.

08/18/2010 By Matthew Halverson

Article

Free Rage Neighbors

Seattle homeowners are pecked off over rooster boosters.

08/18/2010 By Matthew Halverson

Article

They’re Baaaack!

High-stakes bidding battles they ain’t, but multioffer standoffs are cropping up in North Seattle again.

07/20/2010 By Matthew Halverson

Article

Home Work

Seattle Public Schools’ new student assignment plan complicates an already jumbled real estate market.

06/14/2010 By Matthew Halverson

Too Legit To Permit

Legalizing Your Unauthorized Backyard Cottage May Not Be As Easy As It Seems

Plus: Why Tangletown, the microneighborhood at the southeast corner of Green Lake, is a coveted enclave.

05/12/2010 By Matthew Halverson

Slideshow

Slide Show: Best Places to Live 2010

04/19/2010

Article

Best Places to Live 2010

04/19/2010 By Matthew Halverson

Article

Renting the High Life

Want to live in a custom home for a fraction of the price? Builders are leasing what they can’t sell.

03/15/2010 By Matthew Halverson

Article

Breaking Fee

The confounding pursuit of a flat-rate alternative to real estate commissions.

02/17/2010 By Matthew Halverson

Article

Saviors at the Gate

Out-of-state buyers are helping to prop up the downtown condo market.

01/26/2010 By Matthew Halverson

Market Watch

Pending Spree

Something’s hinky in Seattle’s home sales stats.

12/14/2009 By Matthew Halverson

Fraudulent Flippers

How Naive Investors Aided the Biggest Mortgage Scam in State History

Plus, Sound Transit’s Central Link light-rail line expansion to Sea-Tac Airport makes Columbia City/Beacon Hill a hot neighborhood.

11/18/2009 By Matthew Halverson

Purchase Power

The Final Days of Free Money

The clock is ticking on the first-time home buyer’s tax credit.

09/22/2009 By Matthew Halverson

Appraisals

Shock to the System

A well-intentioned new rule may hurt homeowners more than it helps.

08/13/2009 By Matthew Halverson

Development

Knock ’Em Down

A simple solution to the vacant-home plague?

07/17/2009 By Matthew Halverson

Article

A Rail Line Runs Through It

Next month Sound Transit’s Link line is supposed to open the neglected Rainier Valley to growth and investment. About time.

05/22/2009 By Eric Scigliano

RETAIL

Please Re-Lease Me

Vacant retail spaces put pressure on developers to sweeten deals.

05/22/2009 By Matthew Halverson

BOTTOM-LINE BOOSTING

This Room for Rent

Need some help on your mortgage? Take on a tenant.

04/23/2009 By Matthew Halverson