This year’s report includes a 2018 retrospective written by our acclaimed Research Editor and Data Analyst, William Hillis, which explores these changes, including increasing inventory, the fallout from Seattle’s adopted (then repealed) “head tax” and the outcome of Amazon’s HQ2, ongoing political banter at home and overseas; threats of interest rate increases, and more. The report then moves toward a look at eight key Western Washington counties and a performance review of 31 regional markets that includes a 2019 home price forecast for each community.