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April Builders Bulletin

  • Builders Bulletin
|   Apr 3, 2026

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April 2026 Builders Bulletin
The April Builders Bulletin includes data from the January jobs report recently released by the Employment Security Department. Washington’s unemployment rate for January was 5.0% while the Seattle region’s rose to 5.2%. That is up from 4.4% and 4.3% respectively a year ago. Meanwhile, the Housing Market Index, which measures builder confidence, held steady at 30 in the Western region as of March.

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