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The Seattle/Tacoma area apartment market ranks eighth nationally based on anticipated job growth in 2012, according to a new research report from the real estate services firm Marcus & Millichap    . The Puget Sound area vaulted seven slots, moving from No. 15 last year to No.8, based on job growth among its tech companies. […]

Seattle’s wage growth over the past year was the fifth highest in the nation, trailing only Houston, Chicago, Miami and Washington, D.C. According to Seattle-based PayScale, Seattle’s rating in the PayScale Index for the fourth quarter was 1.6 percent higher than a year earlier. Xconomy reports PayScale attributes the growth to the Seattle area’s economic […]

National Weather Service    forecasters are expecting unusually heavy snowfall in the central Puget Sound lowlands on Wednesday, when warm, moisture-laden air flows over the top of a layer of cold air blanketing the region. The Seattle office of the National Weather Service on Monday night said the snowfall “amount should be impressive,” with a […]

Wages in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue area rose faster than the national average last year, according to PayScale    Inc., a Seattle-based compensation research firm.According to the PayScale Index released Jan. 12, average wages in the Seattle metro area grew by 1.6 percent during 2011, compared to an average rise of 1 percent in the nation as […]