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Elliott Krivenko, a Research Specialist with the Downtown Seattle Association sent me this great interactive that he made showing detailed information about all the residential projects in downtown Seattle from 2005 through the present. Click on the image to jump to their website for the interactive (which won’t fit on the page here). One interesting…
Here’s a detail in today’s Seattle Times article about Insignia—the first new construction condo project to break ground in five years—that caught my attention: While condo prices at Insignia haven’t been set, Bosa said, “they’ll be more than you can buy anything [downtown] for now.” More than anything that’s for sale right now? Yikes. One…
There has been a lot of buzz in the local real estate scene recently after Olive 8 announced their “reset” marketing strategy for 2011, following the developer’s switch from Coldwell Banker Bain to Realogics just before Christmas. One of the cornerstones of the campaign appears to be the “Reset at Olive 8” video at right…
Today’s flashback comes from… just over a year ago. July 2009: Photo by Flickr user paperjam At Olive 8 in downtown Seattle, county records indicate only 28 of 229 units have closed. But David Thyer, president of developer R.C. Hedreen, said his firm has no plans to cut prices. “We’re not inclined to discount the…
I’ve collected a few random condo odds and ends over the last couple weeks that I felt like sharing, so that’s what I’m about to do. First is a condo currently on the market in Belltown, spotted by the astute WestSideBilly, and featured in a New York Times article titled What You Get for ……