Update your house to sell in slow market
2008-03-03 09:16:00
When the Hamacks' rambler in the Seattle area was built in 1987, it was featured in a local newspaper as a distinguished "Home of the Week." But less than 20 years later, many of the home's features had become as outdated as mullet haircuts and "Charles in Charge." So when Cheryl and Andy Hamack bought the property in 2005, they embarked on a $45,000, yearlong renovation to push the house into the 21st century.
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Harsch expands in suburban Seattle
2008-02-27 03:12:00
Harsch Investment Properties has added two industrial parks in suburban Seattle
to its commercial real estate portfolio. The Portland-based real estate investment company announced that it has acquired Kenyon Industrial Park, a 126,000-square-foot property in South Seattle, and the Furniture Factory Direct building, a 113,045-square-foot facility in the suburb of Kent. Harsch paid $11.75 million and $7.5 million, respectively, for the properties.
Historic Seattle building to become modern real-estate player
2008-02-23 10:16:00
Downtown vacancy rates are in the single digits. Lease rates have soared. But the renovation will displace small tenants, many in the jewelry business, including some who have been in the building close to a half-century. The Joshua Green Building and the 4th and Pike Building across the street are Seattle
's Diamond District, said Alan Chappron, a gem appraiser who has leased space in the Green Building since 1987.
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Clark County real estate
2008-02-19 04:55:00
Ciphaus has leased 400 square feet of retail space from Interstate Business Center in the Interstate Business Center, 9013 Highway 99, Suite 6, Vancouver. Trevor Sosky and Joe Sosky, Coldwell Banker Commercial Jenkins-Bernhardt Associates, represented the lessee and lessor.Geotechnical Resources Inc. has leased 2,558 square feet of office space from Tim and Susan Brown and Larry and Pat Wilson in the Chamber Building, 1101 Broadway, Suite 130, Vancouver. Brian Sullivan, Coldwell Banker Commercial Jenkins-Bernhardt Associates, represented the lessor. Ryan Pennington, Integrated Property Services, represented the lessee.
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Housing market slower in state, stable in county
2008-02-16 09:33:00
The Washington Center for Real Estate Research reported Thursday that home sales in Washington state were down 25.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007 compared to the same period in 2006, while the median home price was $293,900, down 2.5 percent. In Whatcom County, however, home sales were about the same for that period (up 0.7 percent), while the median price rose 1.2 percent. Whatcom was one of six counties that recorded more home sales in the fourth quarter compared to the same period in 2006.
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Sticker shock in Yakima Valley housing
2008-02-12 03:38:00
But they are encountering some sticker shock. Home prices with the amenities they are looking for -- enough room to entertain and space for family members to visit -- are higher than they are used to. While overall home prices are appreciating, Yakima's real estate market has some pockets of weakness. Mid-range home prices and sales are slowing. Lower-priced homes, up to about $200,000, are selling rapidly.
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Seattle-area house prices edged up in January
2008-02-07 03:35:00
The median price of condos dropped 0.5 percent, to $305,000, in Seattle
; 1.6 percent, to $270,500, in King County; and 0.7 percent, to $250,000, in Western Washington -- the first posted year-to-year price declines for condos since the recent slowdown. But looking at houses alone, the median sales price was $430,000 in Seattle, $435,000 in the county and $334,000 in the 19 counties in Western Washington -- up about 1.2 percent in the city, and 1.3 percent in the county and region from January
2007.
Pacific Northwest Real Estate Markets Remain Robust
2008-02-02 17:03:00
While the rest of the country is experiencing turmoil in their real estate markets the Pacific
Northwest
continues to experience growth as a result of its diversified economy, which is responsible for employment and migration from other parts of the country.In many cities, home sales are suffering from the collapse of the sub prime market and a wave of foreclosures. But Tacoma, Washington is largely insulated from that turmoil.
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Future Boom in Central Washington
2008-01-30 19:30:00
Despite the current slow down in residential real estate in Seattle and other markets, developers in Central
Washington
are bullish about prospects for real estate in 2009 and beyond. Wade Entezar, a Bellevue developer, has submitted a proposal to Douglas County for a Master Planned Resort in the Spanish Castle area. This area is south of Wenatchee on the Columbia River and sits between Rock Island and Trinidad.
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Real Estate Trends: Charles County
2008-01-30 03:59:00
The Washington Post regularly tracks housing sales and prices throughout the Washington area each Saturday in the Real Estate
section, comparing information collected for each residential Zip code from each time period last year with that for the corresponding time period in 2006.
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Seattle ranks fifth for foreign real estate investors
2008-01-30 03:57:00
Seattle ranks fifth in popularity as a place to invest among foreign buyers of commercial real estate, says a survey released Monday. For the second year in a row, Seattle ranked behind New York City; Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles; and San Francisco among the nearly 200 members of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate, according to the poll it conducted last quarter.
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Whatcom County home foreclosure filings take leap
2008-01-30 03:54:00
When it comes to foreclosure filings, Whatcom County
took some lumps in 2007 but is still in better shape than other parts of the nation and Washington state.There were 379 Whatcom County foreclosures filings in 2007, an 83 percent increase from the previous year, according to data released Tuesday by RealtyTrac Inc. However, the overall percentage of local homes in foreclosure is 0.46 percent, better than the average in the state (0.57 percent) and nation (1.03 percent).
Project hit by arson promotes high-end Seattle-area real estate
2008-03-10 03:37:00
The Street of Dreams - an upscale housing development scorched by arson on Monday - is an annual Seattle
-area real estate promotion that showcases luxury homes and furnishings.Last year's home tour and the site of Monday's fires was at Quinn's Crossing, a 48-lot development by the YarrowBay Group on 114 acres northeast of Seattle. Developers advertised the subdivision as being "environmentally sensitive," with the housing limited to 25 percent of the acreage, construction stressing use of recycled materials and energy efficiency, and landscaping designed to reduce water usage.
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