Home prices go higher in tight local, national markets

As in most of the country, housing in the Grand Coulee Dam area is in short supply, pushing prices high.

“It’s happening everywhere,” said longtime local broker Merle Kennedy of Foisy and Kennedy.

Nationally, prices on single family houses are up over 18 percent from a year ago, a trend that hold true in the Grand Coulee area, which Kennedy knows well.

Speaking at a Rotary Club online meeting Marc...