The housing headlines have been screaming all spring and summer about how home buyers have been pushing prices up in King County.
There have been bidding wars for some Seattle-area homes, and median home prices are up 15 percent over a year ago.
Around Lake Sammamish, home prices are back up to peak levels set in 2007. In West Seattle, homes in some turn-of-the-century neighborhoods have been selling for up to $650,000 or more. And in other areas, sellers are getting 10 or 20 offers on a single property.
But now it’s beginning to appear that the price and pace of sales may be cooling off in the Puget Sound housing market.
