SEATTLE-AREA HOMES ARE HOLDING VALUE, ZILLOW SAYS.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: August 14, 2007| Author: Cohen, Aubrey | Copyright information

Byline: AUBREY COHEN P-I reporter

Seattle-area home values are holding up better than those in the country as a whole, but aren't increasing as fast as those in other cities across the state and nation, according to a report released Monday.

The typical home in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton area was worth $355,016 in the second quarter - up 5.3 percent from a year earlier and 1.3 percent from the first quarter of 2007, according to a quarterly report for 66...

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