An escalation clause lets a buyer's offer automatically increase past a competing offer, up to a limit the buyer sets in advance. Puget Sound inventory has grown substantially in 2026, and most listings no longer draw the kind of bidding pressure that made escalation clauses a near-default a few years ago, but well-priced homes in [...]

Buyer agency agreements changed significantly between 2024 and 2025, and Washington brokers are still adjusting their process to match. This post explains what changed nationally, what Washington's own agency law already required before that, and how the two now work [...]

Skyline Properties brokers participate in roughly 1 in 10 home sales across NWMLS-served counties, which is part of why we're starting this report: a quarterly, county-level look at what's actually happening in the Puget Sound market, without the "hot market" language that makes most market updates useless a month later. This is the first [...]