Homebuilders back at work in Pierce County
- In the past few months, new homes have started to appear, here and there, across Pierce County. One or two go up at a time, filling in neighborhoods that have sat, pockmarked with empty lots, for almost four years.
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The value of your home may be a stronger predictor of your weight than the genes inherited from your ancestors, a new public health study from the University of Washington has found.
Tacoma home prices declined by 8.7 percent in March compared with March a year ago, a study by a business statistics provider.
For the first time in more than four years, the median price of homes sold in Western Washington turned upward in April, a new report reveals.
During the first quarter of 2012, Pierce County had the highest percentage of distressed home sales in a four-county area, according to a Bellevue-based short-sale negotiating firm.
When Mike Cohen and his partners proposed creating a huge mixed-use development on the site of the former Asarco copper smelter along the Ruston Way shoreline in Tacoma, their biggest concern was being able to build fast enough to keep pace with demand for new waterfront homes and retail spaces.
Foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac is out with its quarterly report on the state of the foreclosure market. Here’s some of the national report from The Associated Press, which I’ve supplemented with state and local data.
An array of dignitaries from Sen. Maria Cantwell to Hilltop Business District President Eric Crittendon, gathered under a rain-battered tent Wednesday to break ground for the first major commercial structure built in the business district in more than a decade.
There’s mixed news on the mortgage front for the Tacoma area these days. Foreclosure rates were down in January from January last year, but nearly one in ten Tacoma-area homeowners are 90 days or more behind in their mortgage payments.
Home prices in the Seattle metropolitan area fell in January for the sixth straight month, according to the closely watched Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller index, hitting yet another post-boom low.
Six months of writing, faxing and calling his mortgage company got Gary Palagruti nowhere. He didn’t owe them $1,200 a month. He owed them $800 a month. He had the paperwork to prove it, and they wouldn’t admit it until last week, when The News Tribune began asking questions.
WASHINGTON — Sales of existing homes fell 0.9 percent in February after an upward revision to the prior month, as improving job prospects, cheaper homes and warm weather led to the best start to the year since the bursting of the housing bubble.
The $48 million loan on the former Russell Investments headquarters has been downgraded, raising new questions over the future of downtown Tacoma’s signature office building.
Successful sales provided a glimmer of hope for the Pierce and Thurston county housing markets in February.
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