It’s a rare sight indeed: The bottom line for America’s manufacturing sector is not written in red ink. The nation’s 100 biggest metropolitan areas — led by Seattle — actually added 98,900 manufacturing jobs between April 2011 and the same month this year, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics  […]

It’s not an apartment or a condo. It’s a co-op! By John Maynard and Richard Hagar Enlarge image Listen There are apartments and condos. Then there are co-ops. This type of real estate ownership is pretty common in large East Coast cities such as New York, Philadelphia and Boston, but it’s not as common here. […]

Home prices in Western Washington rose slightly more than a percentage point in May, rising to $242,500 from $239,999, the Northwest Multiple Listing Service reported. Prices of single-family homes, excluding condos, rose 2.34 percent, while condo prices dipped more than 5 percent. Median prices are up 12.8 percent since January. In many areas, a lack […]

Seattle added 33,700 jobs in the past year, which is the ninth-highest gain for cities in the country. America’s major metropolitan areas added nearly 1 million jobs during the past year. On Numbers, the research division of American City Business Journals, totaled the latest employment figures for the nation’s 100 biggest labor markets, using newly […]