Normandy Park

Seattle’s home prices continue to climb at a faster pace than anywhere else in the U.S. (Ellen M. Banner/The Seattle Times) Seattle kicked off 2018 the same way it spent the prior year and a half, as the hottest real-estate market in the country, with no slowing down. The cost of the typical single-family house […]

Annemarie Kill and her husband, John Duffy, spent thousands of dollars trying to repair their Oak Park home’s wood-burning fireplace before abandoning the effort and installing a gas fireplace. In a former home, they’d been hit with thousands of dollars of unexpected repairs. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune) When Annemarie Kill and her husband, […]

Sky-high demand and record-low supply continued to push home prices higher in December, far faster than income growth. U.S. home prices increased 6.3 percent compared with December 2016, according to the much-watched S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home prices index. That is an increase from 6.1 percent annual growth in the previous month. The index measuring […]

Brian Goldrick, left, and Caleb Deam at Vera Whole Health in downtown Seattle. The company outgrew its Pioneer Square space. (Erika Schultz/The Seattle Times) Despite the higher office rents, many big companies are actually seeking out Central Seattle locations as downtown proves to be a better option for attracting employees. “There’s good and bad” in […]