Why are home prices so high? Seattle has 2nd-lowest rate ...

Just 0.4 percent of all homes in the Seattle region were on the market at any given time last year -- a lower rate than in any U.S. metro area except the San Francisco Bay Area, according to a new report from realtor.com.

In other words, just one of every 263 houses and condos in the Seattle area was for sale. That's more than three times worse than the national average, creating a market heavily...