The sale is listed as a warranty deed to Ian in 2022 (
archive), while all previous deeds were statutory. From my limited education from my realtor, statutory = the purchase was financed in some way, just warranty = they bought cash. So if that's the case, they're taking a loss, even if it sells at $1.05M, just due to inflation.
It also means they had to pay his accountant extra to wrangle King County property taxes as well, or he just forked over what the county requested on his own, in which case:
Y I K E S