Residential
America Still Builds Houses Like It’s 1925. Sweden, Germany and Japan Would Like a Word
While Swedish, German and Japanese homebuilders long ago moved much of the work indoors, the US still builds 97 percent of its conventional...
Vermont Has 802 Homes. Washington and Oregon Need Their Own Catalogs
Vermont is about to give builders 10 free, pre-approved home designs, a template the Pacific Northwest could use to turn scattered local plan...
Seattle Leads U.S. Housing Slump as Pending Home Sales Plunge 28.8% and Prices Drop 6.2%
Seattle posted the nation's steepest annual declines in both pending home sales and median sale price in Redfin's latest weekly report, as U.S....
NWMLS Listings Hit 12-Year High as Pending Sales Drop 15%, Condos Take Hardest Hit
Active listings across the Northwest Multiple Listing Service footprint climbed 24.5 percent in September to their highest level in 12 years, while pending...
Conner Homes Opens 15-Home Newport View in Bellevue With Prices From $2MM
Conner Homes, a builder with more than 65 years in the Seattle area, is pricing its 15-home Newport View at about $570 to...
Vancouver Puts “Fruit Valley for All” Before Planning Commission as City Reworks Plan for Industrial West-Side Neighborhood
Vancouver's Equitable Development planners will brief the Planning Commission on Oct. 13 about Fruit Valley for All, the city's effort to rewrite the...
Kemper Development Shelves $1B Three-Tower Bellevue Square Expansion Ahead of Sale
Kemper Development pauses its $1 billion, three-tower "The Bellevue" expansion, leaving the site's future to the next owner of The Bellevue Collection.
Lennar-Linked TPG Land Bank Pays $28.1MM for 42 Acres From Oakpointe in Black Diamond
Oakpointe's $28.1 million sale of 42 acres at Ten Trails to a Lennar-linked TPG land bank comes as King County's median price fell...
KB Home Trims Q4 Outlook as West Coast Backlog Jumps 23%, Opens Lake Stevens Townhomes
KB Home's West Coast segment, which includes its Washington operations, grew orders and backlog in the third quarter even as company-wide sales slowed,...
Onni Group Lands $41.7MM Financing to Advance Long-Delayed Block V Towers in Seattle
Eight years after paying $78.75 million for a pair of Denny Triangle parking lots, Onni Group has landed $41.7 million in financing and...
Sekisui House Washington Buys 4.79-Acre Bothell Site for $7.6MM
Sekisui House Washington's $7.6 million purchase of a Bothell-Everett Highway parcel adds to a Puget Sound land pipeline the Japanese homebuilding giant has...
TPG-Affiliated Buyer Pays $12.2MM for 5.71-Acre Fall City Land Site
An institutional housing platform has paid $12.2 million for a stretch of undeveloped land in the small unincorporated King County community of Fall...
