Best Places to Live

The Most Coveted Seattle Neighborhoods and Suburbs

When the housing market’s this fierce, competition is always pending.

05/24/2022 By Angela Cabotaje

Suburban State of Mind

April Home Prices Skyrocketed in These 9 Seattle Suburbs

Each burb had a year-over-year price growth of at least 30 percent last month—and one leapt by 80 percent.

05/10/2022 By Seattle Met Staff

State of Real Estate

Where Seattle Home Prices Rose—and Fell—Last Month

Could this be the return of a more normal housing market?

05/09/2022 By Seattle Met Staff

Songmillions

Property Watch: Kenny G's Former Estate Listed for a Record-Breaking $85 Million

This grandiose mansion, now in the wealthy McCaw family, was designed by an architect to the stars.

05/04/2022 By Sarah Anne Lloyd

Home Economics

Can Millennials Afford to Buy a Home in Seattle?

A recent report shows a sizable chunk of the ill-fated generation has resigned itself to being "always renters." Plus, other real estate news.

04/29/2022 By Angela Cabotaje

Chichicabana

Property Watch: A Sweeping Island Estate Near Anacortes

This Northwest Contemporary compound is along more than 800 feet of sandy beach.

04/21/2022 By Sarah Anne Lloyd

Career Moves

Tyler Lockett Takes On Real Estate

The Seattle Seahawks wide receiver spent the off-season passing his real estate licensing exam and listing his first home.

04/19/2022 By Angela Cabotaje

Suburban State of Mind

6 Seattle Suburbs with the Highest Price Growth in March

The year-over-year median sale prices were up yet again, and the Eastside dominance continues.

04/12/2022 By Seattle Met Staff

State of Real Estate

March Home Prices Were Way Up in These 6 Seattle Enclaves

The median sale price in the top neighborhood leapt by nearly 30 percent compared to the same time last year.

04/11/2022 By Seattle Met Staff

How We Buy

Are Offer Letters a Savvy Real Estate Move or Discrimination?

Buyers are writing personalized letters to boost their home bids to the top of the pile. But we should worry about the illegal implications.

04/08/2020 By Allison Williams

Farewell 2010s

Seattle, You've Changed...Here's Why

Between legal weed and "the Cloud," the last 10 years in this city were a purple haze. Here's what happened.

12/30/2019 By Seattle Met Staff

Where to Live Next

The Top 12 Neighborhoods in Seattle

The ever popular, the rising stars, and the largely unexplored moving in a new direction in a city that just won’t stay still.

03/26/2019 By Mac Hubbard

Shade Index

7 Realtor Euphemisms You Only Hear in Seattle

What your agent says about a property versus reality.

03/26/2019 By Mac Hubbard

Apartments So Extra

Seattle's Top 25 Perk-Packed Apartment Buildings

It would be easy to confuse Seattle’s newer crop of apartment complexes with posh hotels, between the expansive fitness centers and the manicured roof decks with panoramic views.

09/21/2018 By Cassie Sawyer

Real Estate Heaven

The 25 Hottest Neighborhoods in Seattle

Where every Seattleite wants to live right now.

09/21/2018 By Darren Davis

Development

Seattleites Are Mourning the Showbox Site's Reported Demise

The music hall just celebrated its 79th anniversary.

07/25/2018 By Hayat Norimine

Growing Pains

With Seattle’s Housing Crisis, Could Inaction Be the Best Action?

We’ve tried nearly everything else. But what about trying zilch?

10/18/2017 By Hayat Norimine

City Hall

Supply and Demand in Seattle's Apartment Market

The law of supply and demand works, people are going to keep moving here, and rents aren't going up as much as you think, according to the apartment gurus at Dupre+Scott.

04/02/2014 By Erica C. Barnett