For REALTORS®, the move to district elections offers an opportunity to encourage and support candidates who will be positive for the real estate market and specifically the critical issue of housing supply. Housing supply needs to be recognized as a foundation to housing affordability. For too many years the City Council’s… Read more
REALTORS® are supporting efforts being led by the Masterbuilders of King and Snohomish County to work with top staff members of the City of Kent – including Kent’s new City Administrator Derek Matheson. The efforts are intended to result in amendments to the City’s development codes and guidelines in order to… Read more
Auburn officials have been meeting on a quarterly basis with representatives of Seattle King County REALTORS® and the Masterbuilders in connection with a bundle of potential development code updates that could make it easier to bring new housing inventory to the market in a way that is consistent with the… Read more
This past fall, the Mayor convened the Housing Affordability and Livability Advisory committee (HALA). The committee has been tasked with developing housing recommendations for everything from homelessness on up through market-rate housing. REALTOR® Terry Miller is participating on a HALA subcommittee task with developing strategies to preserve housing, and President… Read more
Hawk Property Annexation, Ashton Property dirt-work well underway, and new housing inventory is coming! The Covington City Council has approved the issuance of a Notice of Intent to Annex 80 acres of the 212 acre Hawk property located east of the City limits along State Highway 18. The 80 acres… Read more
The SEATTLE King County REALTORS® has embarked on a bold new initiative designed to help ensure the Supply of Housing will be sufficient to meet the Actual Market Demand for Housing. One of the reasons more homes aren’t available to working families, or to REALTORS®, is that the state’s Growth Management… Read more
REALTORS® engage the City of Seattle to focus on market rate housing supply to allow middle income families to become homeowners. As inadequate housing supply continues to vex buyers, the City of Seattle is reviewing its affordable housing programs, geared toward preserving and increasing the supply of housing affordable to… Read more
Smarter planning is needed in the King County area to improve housing inventory. Concerned that growth planning throughout King County has repressed housing supply through insufficient zoning, SKCR, in collaboration with the Master Builders Association, has called upon the King County to improve the quality of data and the process… Read more
Enhanced Housing Affordability Needed – Will we see more inventory in Seattle? In his first State of the City address, newly elected Seattle Mayor Ed Murray devoted a portion of his remarks to housing affordability and pledged to establish a group of stakeholders to develop recommendations to bring housing within… Read more