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Although the home market may be finally cooling around here, condo fever in downtown Bellevue and Seattle are just getting started<\/a>, according to the King County Journal:<\/p>\n

Overwhelming demand for condominiums in downtown Bellevue has prompted one developer to hold a lottery to determine who gets first dibs on buying units ranging in price from $375,000 to more than $1 million.
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While the red-hot market for single-family homes is showing signs of cooling this year, a new “in-town housing boom” is taking hold on the Eastside and in Seattle.<\/p>\n

This growing demand for condo units in downtown settings is happening across the country, according to Glenn Crellin, director of the Washington Center for Real Estate Research at Washington State University.<\/p>\n

“Take downtown Seattle for example, where there seems to be condo projects springing out of the ground everywhere,” Crellin said. “The same thing’s happening in downtown Spokane,” where several large condo projects are in the works.<\/p>\n

Crellin said the “in-town housing boom” is being driven by growing numbers of “young professionals … who want to be where the action is” as well as aging Baby Boomers who have become “empty nesters.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Personally I don’t really care what’s going on with downtown condos, since I have no intention of living in downtown Bellevue or Seattle, but if the claims in this article are true, is this a trend that will continue once housing really slows down?<\/p>\n

(Clayton Park, King County Journal<\/a>, 03.06.2006<\/i>)<\/p>\n

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