Posts by Don Fenley

Affordable housing – or the lack of it – gets a lot of attention these days. Some of it’s accurate. Some isn’t. Let’s look at the numbers. Good news first.…

Mobile homes continued a brisk sales rate last month as affordability conscious buyers sought relief from higher prices in the detached single-family, townhome and condo markets. Thirty-six manufactured homes sold…

The townhome-condo housing market segment was the property type with the largest gains in April. Prices were up 13.3% with the $150K-$250K price range selling the quickest as first-time buyers,…

Although housing affordability and accessibility remains challenging, the first quarter equity status of outstanding mortgages testify to wealth production in today’s local market. The equity positions of Tri-Cities area mortgaged…

There were 1,440 active listings in the Tri-Cities region in April. That’s a 7% improvement over April 2023 and 47% better than it was when invitatory bottomed out in 2021.…

There was a subtle, but significant, change in the Census Bureau’s latest local population estimates. It wasn’t so much about the Tri-Cities region’s growth rate. As expected, nine of the…

Although real estate’s contribution to the overall Tri-Cities area economy has flagged from the early post-pandemic years, it still accounts for about 16% of the local economy. During the first…