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The real estate craze in Seattle apparently isn’t limited to just the housing market. Even downtown buildings are being bought for far more than it seems they should be worth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The thunderstorm of investment in Seattle real estate kept rumbling as a Texas real-estate investment firm paid $23.6 million yesterday for the 12-story First & Stewart Building.<\/p>\n

That works out to $260 a square foot for a nondescript, red-brick building that, according to Officespace.com, is about 26 percent vacant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And this isn’t an isolated example.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Goodman Real Estate paid $38 million for the Medical Dental Building, a 1925 terra-cotta building next to Westlake Center.<\/p>\n

And last week, the Executive Pacific Plaza Hotel, another historic building at 400 Spring St., was bought for $13.9 million by a partnership of Seattle and Vancouver investors who plan to renovate it into a boutique hotel.<\/p>\n

Don Fosseen, a vice president at CB Richard Ellis, says office buildings in 2005 are selling at double the pace of last year \u2014 and triple the pace of the year before.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So if this insanity is a bubble, and it does burst (rather than just slowly fizzle), it seems that homeowners won’t be the only ones with the big hurt put on them.<\/p>\n

(Tom Boyer, Seattle Times<\/a>, 08.05.2005<\/i>)<\/p>\n

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