{"id":68,"date":"2026-09-10T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2026-09-10T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:00:00","slug":"washington-down-payment-wait-tops-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/washington-down-payment-wait-tops-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Down-Payment Wait Tops a Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/douglas-converse\/states-saving-home-remotion-videos-03cb\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>In Washington, a household earning the median $104.8K income needs 11.5 yr of saving to reach a 20% down payment target statewide.<br \/>\nTypical Washington home values reached $604.1K, \u2191&gt;96% over the decade, while median income \u219156%, stretching the time needed for a down payment.<br \/>\nFor a minimum-wage worker in Washington, saving alone for that same 20% down payment would take 33.9 yr, underscoring the affordability gap.<br \/>\nSeattle drove much of Washington\u2019s pressure as well-paid tech workers competed for limited homes, while no state income tax drew additional high earners.<br \/>\nBuyers priced out of Seattle increasingly look to Snohomish and Pierce counties, but longer commutes come with prices that keep pace outward.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Washington, a household earning the median $104.8K income needs 11.5 yr of saving to reach a 20% down payment target statewide. Typical Washington home values reached $604.1K, \u2191&gt;96% over the decade, while median income \u219156%, stretching the time needed for a down payment. For a minimum-wage worker in Washington, saving alone for that same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","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\/68","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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}