Councilmembers Kshama Sawant and Nick Licata are pushing for rent control in Seattle to take on what they see as out-of-control rent. It’s a somewhat disingenuous push though &#8212 it’s all about ...

Seattle renters need nearly $100,000 to afford average rent, according to a new report from Zillow. “Housing costs have surged since pre-pandemic, with rents growing quite a bit faster than wages,” ...

What goes up must come down. That old saw is true of the Seattle area’s housing market. After years of pandemic-fueled growth, high mortgage rates and cooling home prices have forced buyers and ...

Kshama Sawant, the three-term Seattle council member who’s leaving office in December, is taking aim at her biggest outstanding goal: citywide residential rent control. Sawant, the council’s senior ...

Seattle renters will need to make $90,840 per year to afford the typical monthly rent comfortably. Residents spend slightly over 23.1% of their income on rent, a 0.2% increase since last month, in the ...

Seattle jumped onto Zillow’s top 10 list of cities that paid the most rent in the country last year. It’s the No. 10 city where renters collectively paid the most rent in the nation &#8212 a total of ...

In this country, for better or worse, the way people build wealth is by owning real estate. But home ownership is not available to a lot of people. In the past, that was clearly stated in the ...