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Significant changes are evident in the building permit landscape for the Seattle Metro Area, encompassing King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties, based on data as of November 2023. Single-family permits total 5,501, reflecting a year-to-date (YTD) decrease of 20% compared to the same period in 2022. Concurrently, multifamily permits stand at 10,175, indicating a more substantial YTD decline of 44% compared to the previous year. These figures underscore a notable downturn in both single-family and multifamily permits.

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Washington, DC—(RealEstateRama)—Juli Bacon, owner of JB Consulting Systems LLC and Bacon Maintenance Services LLC in Woodinville, Wash., was recently sworn in as the 2017 chair of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Professional Women in Building (PWB) Council.

“Ensuring that women understand they have a place at the table and helping them find a way to get to that place at the table in construction is really important to me,” said Bacon. “We have a lot of young women wanting to know how to get there and my goal as the PWB chair is to help them in the most efficient way possible.”

Shannon interviewed state Senator Guy Palumbo (D-1st District) about the recently signed SB 5674, which will make the final plat approval process significantly more efficient.

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