Seattle Luxury Listings JUMP 84% As Wealthy Flee Democrat Policies
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The episode discusses the significant increase in luxury real estate listings in Seattle as high earners leave the city due to unfavorable policies.
Seattle's luxury real estate market just sent a flashing warning signal: high-end listings jumped 84% — a number that doesn't happen in a healthy city. This isn't a housing boom. It's an exit.The pattern is identical to what played out in San Francisco, Portland, and every other city where progressive governance chased out the productive class. High earners don't announce their departure — they list their homes. When luxury inventory spikes this hard, the people who have options are exercising them.Seattle's city leadership has spent years treating wealth as a problem to be taxed rather than an asset to be retained. The results are now showing up in the MLS. The blue state exodus isn't a talking point anymore — it's a data point, and it's accelerating.CHAPTERS0:00 Blue State Exodus: Seattle luxury home…1:44 Why People Are Fleeing Washington State2:39 Seattle Mayor's Starbucks Boycott…3:10 Washington Appraiser on the Housing…4:51 Starbucks Relocates 2,000 Jobs to…5:48 Bellevue Homeowner Moving to Oklahoma…7:04 Inventory Surges as Mortgage Rates Hit…8:05 Brokers Advise Sellers to Drop Prices8:54 Bellevue Median Home Price Hits $1.8M9:37 King County Inventory Still Well Below…10:10…
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