The Seattle Condo Blog

While the battle looms over the First United Methodist Church in downtown, a Capitol Hill sanctuary is finding new life…as a condo. The 1906 constructed First Church of Christ, Scientist, a beautiful grand dame of a building is being transformed in to luxury townhome condominiums while preserving the finely crafted interior architecture.
Thoughout August, key [...]

The Press Condominiums (Capitol Hill)

Conversion project, previously Press Apartments on Pine & Belmont in the Pike/Pine corridor. Presscondos.com

Studio, one and two bedroom home
Square footage from 521 to 982 sq feet
City and mountain views from many homes
Roof deck for entertaining friends
Fitness center
Underground, controlled-access, reserved parking
Priced from low $200,000s to mid $500,000s
Limited pre-sale starting in August

Verge Condos [...]

July was a great month for condo sales on Capitol Hill with both pendings sales and solds increasing. The number of pending sales increased from 15 to 34 from June to July while solds increased 36 to 50 during the same time period. The number of active condo listings remained the same at [...]

The Seattle Times reported that King County condos have surpassed single family homes in appreciation during the first half of this year. Condos now make up 25% percent of the total home sales in the county.
Condo Appreciation Rates for selected neighborhoods:

Source: Seattle Times
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The Arboretum View condo project is a conversion on Madison Avenue. All units are being updated and there are no upgrade options. Standard features include:

Granite tile countertops in kitchen & bath
Either ceramic tile or hardwood entry & kitchen
GE stainless steel appliances (electric range)
New carpeting in living and bedrooms
Fireplaces
Washer & Dryer
Large private decks plus [...]

Three more condos that are up and coming around Seattle. I’ll provide full posts on each projects once more information is released about them.
Arboretum View (Madison Park)
Arboretum View will consist of one & two bedroom homes. Located on Madison half-way between Trader Joe’s and the Washington Park Arboretum with pricing from Low $200’s [...]

Sneak Peaks 2 takes a look at several proposed projects. None of these are certain and may never come to fruition. Nevertheless, it’s a chance to see what’s may lie in Seattle’s future.
5th & Bell (site of Teatro Zinzanni):
Project consists of two 32-story towers on top of an 8-story base with plans for 640 residential [...]

One of the newest conversion projects on Capitol Hill is Onyx. Formerly known as The Oliver apartments at the corner of 12th Avenue and Olive, Onyx has been receiving rave reviews from buyers and agents.
The Onyx is a project by Mastro Properties which has two other conversion projects on the market - Epic Condominium (First [...]

A new condo project in the heart of Capitol Hill, the Brix condos, will certainly add vitality back to “the Hill”. Brix is planned for the old Safeway site on the north-end of Broadway. If anyone has been to Broadway lately, it has lost its luster with many of the long-time and quaint business closing [...]

The Morgan and La Toscane are conversion projects just north of the Broadway business district on Capitol Hill. Both will have their grand opening on June 10th.
I toured both of these projects today during their broker’s open. Unlike the Residences on Fifth Avenue, both of these have been completely updated.
The Morgan is located on [...]