Seattle-Eastside Real Estate is Mostly Green, A Buyers' Market

The Seattle-eastside has flipped back almost completely to a buyers’ market.   Two areas, Redmond and East Bellevue near Microsoft and Kirkland, were more balanced real estate markets, with the market time to sell a home falling between 3 to 6 months.   If you check out what the colors represent below, you can see how much of King County real estate is in the buyers’ camp right now.  With today’s low interest rates and the ability to negotiate strongly because of this market trend, it’s probably a better time to buy a home now than when everyone was rushing to beat the expiration of the tax credit.   The savings  would be spread out over a longer time period, but would be worth far more than the one time $8000 tax credit.  If you do decide to buy, remember to look for a home you can grow in that’s close to transportation, shopping, schools, and jobs.  A home that meets these criteria will hold its value better.

What do the numbers on the map mean?

The map is divided into the numbered areas as defined by our Northwest Multiple Listing Service (NWMLS).  Downtown Bellevue is area 520 and East Bellevue is area 530, as an example.

What do the colors mean?

Red means it’s a sellers’ market, a sellers’ advantage.

Yellow means a balanced market between buyers and sellers.

Green means it’s a buyers’ market.

If you take each area as shown on the map and look to the area number on the side of the map, it will tell you how long it would take to sell every home currently for sale if no other home came up on the market in that area.