By The Tim on January 19, 2010
I posted this to the Twitter news wire yesterday, but since the original story merited a full blog post back in May (Walking Away at Olive8), I thought that Andy’s thoughtful follow-up would be worth posting as well. As it turns out, local internet entrepreneur Andy Liu didn’t end up walking away from Olive8 after [...]
Posted in Local, News | Tagged condos, downtown, Olive8
By The Tim on December 23, 2009
Here’s an interesting comparison. First, this graphic, posted here in June 2006, from a Seattle P-I article titled Booming development set to change Seattle’s look: Then, a similar graphic from the most recent Seattle Business Magazine. The red rectangle on the first graphic shows the area that the second graphic covers. I guess Seattle wasn’t [...]
Posted in News | Tagged condos, downtown
By The Tim on July 6, 2009
Lots of local real estate related news over the weekend worth mentioning. Here’s a brief roundup of the stories you might be interested in. Let’s kick things off with some good news via Aubrey Cohen at the P-I. Looks like the state’s irresponsible plan to pre-distribute $8,000 tax credit is dead in the water, thanks [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Business Journal, Cohen, condos, downtown, foreclosures, Seattle_PI, Seattle_Times, SmartMoney, Smith_Tower, walk away, Wall_Street_Journal
By The Tim on June 22, 2009
Thanks to everyone who responded to the call earlier this month from KUOW for help on their story about the soft market. Here’s the resulting piece: It’s a Tenants Market for Downtown Seattle Office Space There may be signs of recovery in the region’s housing market, but not so for the region’s office market. A [...]
Posted in News | Tagged commercial, downtown, foreclosures, KUOW, NPR, office space, radio, short sales
By The Tim on May 4, 2009
We made a passing mention of Olive8 pre-sale buyers walking away from their deposits in the condo sales status project post (which is still being compiled, by the way), and a week or so ago the Seattle Times posted a story about buyers at Olive8 and elsewhere walking away. On Saturday local entrepreneur Andy Liu [...]
Posted in News | Tagged condos, downtown, Olive8
By The Tim on December 24, 2008
Here’s another WaMu update on a subject that will likely have a large impact on downtown’s commercial real estate scene: Seattle Times: JPMorgan dumping WaMu’s leased space in Seattle Seattle P-I: JPMorgan dropping six WaMu leases in Seattle From the P-I story: New York banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co., which in September bought the [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Allison, commercial, downtown, JPMorgan, Pryne, Richman, Seattle_PI, Seattle_Times, WaMu
