No housing woes in booming Washington state
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While California suffers in the housing crisis, the economy of nearby Washington state is flourishing with strong job growth and some of the highest appreciation in home prices in the nation.
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The slump in home prices in the Washington region is deepening and spreading, according to data compiled for The Washington Post that shows that for the first time, every local county saw a decrease in prices for a significant period of last year.
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Construction of new homes and apartments rose 4.7 percent in January to the highest level in over two decades as low mortgage rates continued to power the nation's housing industry.
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By Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Jun. 19--Northwest ratepayers got a boost recently when Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., convinced the House Natural Resources Committee to agree that hydropower is a renewable energy resource.
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To understand why the housing slump hasn't dragged the economy into a recession, it helps to visit the Smoketown Plaza in Woodbridge, where the thumping of hammers signals the healthy pulse of a building boom that's still going strong.
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By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Sep.
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By Mary Hopkin, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Sep.
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Forget Ohio, Washington State is the new Florida
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Sales of new homes rose 16.2 percent in April, the sharpest climb in fourteen years, while prices fell a record 11 percent, according to a government report on Thursday that showed home builders taking extraordinary steps to move houses.
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It's no secret that the condominium market statewide is strong and the rental housing market soft.
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Y ou can&#39;t dismiss Sam Reed as one of those suburban Seattle blue-county Democrats. He&#39;s a red-county Washingtonian through and through, having grown up in Wenatchee, gone to high school in Spokane and gotten
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By SAMANTHA YOUNG SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Leaving the congestion and sky-high housing prices of the San Francisco Bay area for a quiet retirement near the state capital seemed like a no-lose idea to Achilles Melendres.
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During the real estate boom, home prices in the Sun Valley area spiked almost as high as the peak of nearby Bald Mountain. The median home price is now about as high as San Francisco's.
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Sales of new homes rose unexpectedly in April to the fastest pace this year as the housing sector showed resilience in the face of rising mortgage rates. But the price of homes sold last month fell and the level of unsold homes rose to a record high.
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A majority of black and Hispanic households in metropolitan Washington now own their houses instead of renting, according to new data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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WASHINGTON -- The unemployment rate held steady last month at 4.5 percent and wages rose moderately, the Labor Department said yesterday, indicating the overall job market remains solid despite the slumping housing market and struggling US auto industry.
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Housing starts have been very high relative to the number of homes that builders are trying to sell.