Ordinance 127491 lets Seattle homeowners bar brokers, agents and investors from approaching them about selling, with penalties that compound daily once a name is on the list.
Redfin data published Wednesday shows San Francisco’s median sale price up 6% to $1.6 million with inventory down 18.4%, while Seattle’s price fell 3.6% and listings rose 16.7% β a split the brokerage ties to where AI money is landing.
Northwest Multiple Listing Service will launch a First Look status on Sept. 4 that hides days on market and price cuts for up to 21 days while keeping listings open to all 30,000-plus member brokers, resolving Compass’s antitrust suit.
A Medina lakefront home sold for $22.8 million, leading five Seattle metro area home sales totaling $46.79 million for the week ending August 16, 2026.
Buying a starter home still costs $858 more per month than renting nationally, but Realtor.com’s July report finds seven metros — including Orlando, Miami and Seattle — shifting toward buyers as prices fall faster than rents.
A 2017 custom house in Clyde Hill sold for $6.25 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Seattle, Washington metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
U.S. home sales fell to their lowest level in nearly two years in July, with San Antonio, Dallas and Seattle posting the steepest declines even as West Palm Beach and San Francisco saw sales grow, Redfin found.
Security Properties, partnering with RGA ReCap on behalf of Reinsurance Group of America, acquired the 134-unit Langara apartment community in Issaquah, Wash., for $55.1 million.
Seattle’s City Council passed legislation eliminating Hearing Examiner appeals for environmental review of zoning and comprehensive-plan decisions, aiming to remove a process officials say has delayed housing development for years.
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