2021 Exclusive Report: An Overview of Our Region’s Ever-Changing Landscape

Seattle’s booming and diverse economy has spurred unprecedented development and population growth with a clear urbanization trend.

Thanks to leading employers on the front lines of enabling essential services and work-from-home agility, Seattle weathered the COVID-19 challenges of 2020 better than many U.S. metros.

Yet as pandemic-related conditions prevailed nationwide and were not confined to our own region, Seattle’s outperformance of competing metros presents opportunities to value-seeking investors, entrepreneurs, and job-seekers.

In this report, we study some of the leading indicators influencing the current investment cycle in the region, take new stock of Seattle’s West Coast competition from Vancouver B.C. and San Francisco, and offer some perspective on how the housing trends may unfold ahead.