Here at the coast we are less susceptible to national trends but the market in King & Pierce County impacts how folks feel about a second home purchase. Many factors come into play when you look at current value and attempt to anticipate future value but this review rings true. CHECK IT OUT

Carrie Bay of DS News reports solid appreciation across the country has many homeonwers surfacing from being underwater in their home values. California has made huge strides in recovering value and is leading the country in appreciation in it's major market sectors.  Seattle has exceeded most areas around the country due to economic diversity and […]

This enlightening article in the New York Times by Robert Shiller (Yale economist) is a broad review of the market response to "bubbles". To take a look at it CLICK HERE. At the South Beach our market is so small that the influences of "supply and demand" can have an immediate impact.

This recent report from Puget Sound Business Journal's Jeanne Lang Jones speaks to the whiplash effect that rising residential prices has on lot demand. In King & Pierce County national developers have entered the scene in the past 3 years and purchased many of the "developed" lots but few new lot developments are underway and […]