housing market

The initiative to ban algorithmic rental pricing software is aimed at companies that analyze public and private market data to suggest rental prices to landlords.

Since December, renters in six apartment buildings in Tacoma have voted to form unions in an effort to negotiate better leases with their landlords.

Whatcom County housing market faces a period of adjustment — and possibly compensation — as the real estate industry nationwide adapts.

Cooling in the real estate market means less funds for homeless services, which in turn may leave many counties with holes in their homeless budgets.

Housing has long been a major benefit for service members, a subsidy to salaries that trail the private sector. But amid record-breaking spikes in rent, service members and housing activists say the Department of Defense has not adequately increased housing allowances, thereby neglecting its commitment to military families.

Home prices in the Seattle metro area in May showed their biggest monthly gain in more than 20 years, as a tight supply of homes and low interest rates…

The number of foreclosures in Washington state has jumped so far this year compared with last year, counter to the national trend. Bank repossessions…

Even as home prices have been rising in the Seattle metro area, more people are losing their homes to foreclosure.The number of people in the…

Are abandoned, dilapidated houses a problem in your neighborhood? They are in Auburn, and that city’s mayor isn’t putting up with it.Mayor Pete Lewis has…

There have been a few glimmers of hope lately for the U.S. economy, such as a better-than-expected jobs report. But local economist Dick Conway says…