Kim Davis - The Davis Group

09/03/2026

The Impact of AI on the Seattle and San Francisco housing markets.

Two tech capitals, two very different housing stories right now.
San Francisco and Seattle used to move together — both riding (and dipping with) the same tech cycle. Not anymore. New Redfin data shows the two markets pulling in opposite directions, and it comes down to who's winning the AI race.

San Francisco: median sale price $1.6M, up 6% year-over-year — the largest gain of any major U.S. metro. Active listings down 18.4%. Sales up 8.5%. The city is home to OpenAI and Anthropic, and agents are reporting AI signing bonuses landing straight into down payments — Bay Area luxury pricing is up 13.4% since ChatGPT launched.

Seattle: median sale price $809K, down 3.6% — the second-largest decline in the country. Active listings up 16.7%. Sales down 9.1%. Layoffs at Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and Expedia have buyers sitting on the sidelines, and the Bay Area-to-Seattle migration that used to feed this market has nearly dried up — just 369 net arrivals this past quarter, down from over 5,000 five years ago.
As Redfin's head of economics research put it: AI isn't just reshaping who has a job in tech — it's reshaping who can afford a home.
If you're buying, selling, or advising clients in either market, the fundamentals have shifted underneath us. Worth a real conversation before you price a listing or write an offer.

08/28/2026

08/28/2026

Backyard bash. Sunset appetizers. A grilling night with zero oven required. However you send summer off, make it count. Didn't receive my flyer this month with ideas? DM me and I'll send it your way.

08/26/2026

Back to school energy is creeping in, but you've still got time to soak up the season. Schedule one fun thing this week and watch your whole outlook shift. What's one thing you still want to do before fall hits?

08/24/2026

August doesn't mean summer's over,; it just means you get a bonus round. Redefine it as a mindset, not a deadline, and squeeze in everything you haven't gotten to yet. And if a move is part of your fall plans, send me a message and let's map it out together.

08/18/2026

🏠🥂SOLD IN NORMANDY PARK!
Another sale of the heart. We had the privilege of working with this seller during a major life transition from her large family home to a condo with a water view. Over about a year, we worked with her and her family to prepare her home for sale and were rewarded with wonderful friendships. Real estate isn't easy these days but the rewards are definitely worth it. Congratulations Judi!🎉

08/14/2026

There's a reason images like this one still stop me in my scroll every single time.

Look at that roofline. A single cantilevered plane, floating over the patio with almost no visible support, serving as both a shade structure and a sculpture. Then the boulders left exactly where they landed, not cleared for the build but built around — the house negotiating with the mountain instead of arguing with it. Board-formed stone, vertical wood siding, glass that disappears the wall between inside and out. This is Palm Springs modernism at its most confident: nothing decorative, everything doing a job.

As someone who spends my days in real estate, I look at homes like this a little differently now. That "less is more" restraint isn't just an aesthetic — it's often what ages the best. Clean lines don't go out of style the way trends do. Indoor-outdoor flow isn't a buzzword in these homes, it's the whole design thesis. And a home that responds to its site, rather than bulldozing it, usually retains its character (and its value) for decades.

If you love this era as much as I do, or if you're MCM-curious and want to talk about what to look for when buying one (originality, provenance, what's been "updated" vs. what's been lost) — I'd love to talk shop. This stuff never gets old to me.

08/13/2026

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