The week in review: October 5–9
The week of October 5–9 on seattle.metrotrendlines.com, in 10 posts.
Monday, October 5 — King County for-sale inventory, September 2026. King County ended September 2026 with 7,611 active for-sale listings, up 29.1% from a year earlier — the monthly update to King County’s inventory rebuild.
Monday, October 5 — Sea-Tac against normal, September 2026. September 2026 at Sea-Tac ran 1.6°F below normal. Normal here is the 1991-2020 average for that same month, which is the standard climate baseline — so this is a comparison with the recent past, not with the start of the record.
Tuesday, October 6 — King County asking prices, September 2026. The median King County listing asked $842,425 in September 2026, down 0.9% from a year earlier.
Tuesday, October 6 — What King County sellers listed, September 2026. King County sellers put 2,782 new listings on the market in September 2026, down 8.5% from the same month a year earlier.
Wednesday, October 7 — How long a King County listing sits, September 2026. The median King County listing sat 50 days on the market in September 2026, against 46 days a year earlier.
Wednesday, October 7 — King County homes under contract, September 2026. 1,948 King County listings were under contract at the end of September 2026, down 17.7% from a year earlier.
Thursday, October 8 — Seattle’s labor force, August 2026. The Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue labor force — everyone employed or actively looking for work — was 2,300,841 in August 2026, down 0.3% from a year earlier.
Thursday, October 8 — Seattle-metro unemployment, August 2026. Seattle-metro unemployment was 4.8% in August 2026, the newest month in the series and the monthly update to the unemployment post. That is up 0.0 points from 4.8% in the same month a year earlier, and down from 5.0% the month before.
Friday, October 9 — Link light rail ridership, August 2026. Link carried 5,015,697 boardings in August 2026, up 38.6% from a year earlier. The record month is 5,205,705 (July 2026); today’s figure is 4% below it.
Friday, October 9 — Washington jobless claims, week of Oct 3, 2026. Washington workers filed 4,788 initial unemployment claims in the week ending Oct 3, 2026; the steadier four-week average is 4,684, down 17.4% from the same weeks a year ago. Read the chart in two parts.
The week in review: every post from October 5–9, summarised from its own listing blurb and linked. Assembled each Saturday from the posts that actually published that week.