Is Tacoma being set up for a big fall when the housing party finally ends? Quite possibly—especially when it comes to condos downtown. A tally of downtown projects by real estate consulting firm McCament and Rogers for the City of Tacoma shows 774 residential units are currently being built in 13 different projects around downtown….
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Luxury Condos Pop Up All Over
Apparently Puyallup is not alone outside of Seattle in its ability to attract ridiculously lavish condominiums. "Luxury condos" are popping up in all kinds of outlying Seattle neighborhoods: Luxury condominiums, some priced up to $2 million, are springing up in such unlikely locations as Edmonds and Ruston as developers look to attract empty nesters in…
$500,000 Condos In Puyallup
Some parts of the market in the greater Seattle area may be slowing down, but nobody told the condo developers in Puyallup: After several years of public investment in downtown Puyallup, private money is now pouring into multilevel condominiums around Pioneer Park. It appears to be money well spent. Some units are expected to sell…
Condo Conversions Taking Over Seattle
Apartment to Condo conversions made the front page of today’s Seattle P-I in a story titled City’s renters lose out as condo switch soars. Thousands of Seattle renters have been displaced as developers turn to apartment buildings to meet strong appetite for in-city homes. Apartment-to-condominium conversions in Seattle have skyrocketed, from 345 in 2004 to…
Downtown Everett Condo Conversion
Most of the stories I post on here are about trends and big-picture type things, but it’s good once in a while to look at individual examples of how the housing craze is affecting people and places around the Puget Sound. In that vein, here’s a story about “downtown Everett’s biggest apartment building,” its impending…