Officials thought there would always be huge demand for affordable housing, so they aimed to maximize it for the working class. But now those units are vacant.

If the sales go through, they would join the 13 already sold or transferred over the previous year. The divestment ...

SEATTLE — Good news for house hunters: A new Redfin report on the Seattle housing market shows prices are starting to come down. Redfin's chief economist Daryl Fairweather said this is welcome ...

Located on Puget Sound and surrounded by mountains, Seattle offers access to natural beauty while providing plenty of amenities. Its diverse economy, supported by the presence of large tech ...

Seattle's new social housing developer hopes to have its first property under contract by the end of the year, potentially allowing it to open its first mixed-income public housing building by mid ...

After being hot for several months, the local and national housing markets appear to be cooling down. Or, as Redfin Chief Economist Daryl Fairweather puts it, the market is "going into hibernation ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. A recent Seattle Times story, With 5,900 tech jobs already gone, a ...

Seattle has closed the spigot to fund affordable housing this year in order to backfill the rising cost of dozens of projects already in the pipeline. The city’s Office of Housing will this year ...

SEATTLE — More than 100 years after Vienna, Austria, undertook a project to create long-lasting affordable housing for its residents, a similar model is on the February ballot in Seattle.

From Philadelphia to Portland, cities are searching for a path toward housing affordability. Could getting rid of single-family zoning be the answer?

Seattle’s housing market is priced far higher than the national median, at just $394,000, itself a 2.9% increase year over year. [IMAGE] ...