By The Tim on October 21, 2008
These articles are a bit off-topic from the usual news about residential real estate, but I thought they were at least worth a brief mention. New York Times: In Seattle, Office Vacancy Rate Is Rising Fast Not long ago, Seattle looked invincible, even as an economic downturn was starting to plague the rest of the [...]
Posted in News | Tagged commercial, Commercial Real Estate, downtown, New York Times, office space, Pryne, Seattle_Times
By The Tim on April 25, 2008
Almost a year ago, a family that has accumulated ownership of 13 near-contiguous acres of downtown real estate in the Denny Triangle finally put the whole lot of it on the market. Mr. Clise is convinced now is the ideal time to sell. The job-market outlook is robust for Seattle, and the office market, with [...]
Posted in News | Tagged commercial, downtown, Seattle_PI, Seattle_Times, Wall_Street_Journal
By The Tim on December 4, 2007
Granted, this is pretty much old news by now, but the issue of the disappearing condo views is at least worth mentioning. Benjamin Shanfelder signed up to buy a condominium on the west side of downtown Seattle’s Cosmopolitan building in 2005 because it was one of the first new downtown high-rises and was convenient to [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Cohen, condos, downtown, Seattle_PI
By The Tim on July 11, 2007
Once in a while, you have to wonder why someone would be so excited to buy one of the many $500,000+ condos that are soon to spread over downtown like a tsunami. It certainly isn’t for a secure, friendly neighborhood environment… Sgt. Rich O’Neill, Seattle Police Officers’ Guild president, said officers aggressively policing the drug [...]
| Tagged condos, downtown
By The Tim on June 14, 2007
The Seattle Times has had a good handful of real estate stories in the last few days, but none of them have been interesting enough to merit their own post. However, now that I’ve got a little collection of them in the inbox, here’s a roundup with snippets from all four. Jane Hodges, Buying on [...]
| Tagged downtown, Financing, link_roundup, rent, Seattle_Times
By synthetik on April 14, 2007
Ah, the joys condodebtorship. When Jerry O’Leary, 54 and retired, put down over $100,000 dollars toward a new million-dollar condominium in February 2005, he thought he was buying his way into an innovative downtown lifestyle proposed by Vulcan Inc. Vulcan Real Estate’s $200 million 2200 project on two and a half acres at Westlake Avenue… [...]
| Tagged condos, downtown, incentives, Urbnlivn, young_professionals
