{"id":166,"date":"2026-10-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2026-10-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:00:00","slug":"seattles-best-buying-week-is-three-weeks-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/seattles-best-buying-week-is-three-weeks-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle\u2019s Best Buying Week Is Three Weeks Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/douglas-converse\/seattle-best-october-remotion-videos-af1c\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>In Seattle, October 18-24 ranked as that year&#039;s best buying window, arriving three weeks after the national sweet spot as buyer competition typically eased later.<br \/>\nDuring that week, buyer views per listing historically sat ~52% below Seattle&#039;s peak, the sharpest pullback among the 50 largest metros studied.<br \/>\nSupply also improved for Seattle buyers: active listings historically ran ~32% above an avg. week, new listings ~17% higher, and homes lingered 22 extra days.<br \/>\nMedian listing prices during that window sat ~8% below peak, or ~$67.5K on $900K, while separate Seattle data later showed median prices yearly \u21939%.<br \/>\nThe opportunity had a catch: 30-yr fixed rates were near 7%, so analysts said prepared, pre-approved Seattle buyers were best positioned to benefit.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Seattle, October 18-24 ranked as that year&#039;s best buying window, arriving three weeks after the national sweet spot as buyer competition typically eased later. During that week, buyer views per listing historically sat ~52% below Seattle&#039;s peak, the sharpest pullback among the 50 largest metros studied. Supply also improved for Seattle buyers: active listings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}