Ben Kakimoto
Ben Kakimoto is a Seattle condo and urban real estate marketing & listing specialist. Contact Ben to learn more about the Seattle condo and loft real estate market or about buying or selling a Seattle area condo. Find Ben on Twitter and Facebook.
Play Doh Drive for Children’s Hospital
The Seattle Children’s Hospital is conducting a drive for Play Doh. The hospital goes through more than 2,000 jars of Play Doh every year. Due to the serious illnesses and compromised immune system that many of the children have, a jar of Play Doh can only be used once. And, thus, it’s a considerable expense…
Blue Heron Condos – Magnolia
The Blue Heron (website) is a new construction condominium project just a few blocks from Discovery Park at 3150 W. Government Way. The four level building features only 30 one- and two-bedroom condominium homes with an amazing number of different floor plans to select from – 17 floor plans in all. The homes range in…
Park Modern – U-District Condo
The Park Modern is a boutique condominium project in the Ravenna area in Northeast Seattle at 5611 University Way NE. Park Modern was conceived to fuse clean modern architecture with a green-built sustainable design. With only 12 condominium homes, Park Modern features one-bedroom, one+den, two-bedroom and townhome floor plans ranging from 746 to 1,933 square…
Clise to Sell Denny Triangle Property
The Clise family, a major land owner in the Denny Triangle area, has put nearly 13 acres up for sale. With the recent zoning changes, this large swath of land is prime real estate for redevelopment. The parcels have a capacity of 13 million square feet of development which could exceed $7 billion in investments.…
Friday Condo Round-Up 6/15
Luxe Condos – Lower Queen Anne The Luxe will be hosting its public Grand Opening this weekend at 500 5th Avenue W (map). 200 West Highland – Queen Anne Work is underway for 200 West Highland. The 5-story concrete & steel building will feature just 25 condominium homes ranging is size from 1,600 to…
Luxe Condos Grand Opening
The Luxe Condominium on Lower Queen Anne will be holding its Grand Opening this weekend from noon to 6 PM. Luxe is located at 500 5th Avenue W (access from Mercer). The Luxe conversion features 39 one-bedroom and two-bedroom homes, many with city or Sound views. Prices begin in the mid-$300,000s. – Luxe website –…
Max Condo – Greenwood Conversion
Please read our updated Max Condo post The Max Condominium (website) is the newest condo project in the Greenwood area, located on Evanston off of 85th (map). It’ll be a conversion of the apartment building just north of the Evanston Condominium. Max will include one-bedroom, one-bedroom + den and two-bedroom homes starting from the mid-$200,000s.…
The Seattle Condo Round-up ~ 6/9
1 Hotel & Residences – Downtown 1 Hotel & Residences broke ground this past week. The $200 million project states they are more than 50% reserved on condo homes and oversubscribed on city suites (hotel / condo units). AVA Condos – Downtown AVA Condos will begin scheduling private preview events in July for interested buyers.…
Condo Searching Just Got Easier
John L. Scott Real Estate rolled out its new home search feature allowing users to pinpoint their home searches to a specific neighborhood or block. The feature, called “Neighborhood Wizard”, allow users to use a polygon tool to draw any shape search parameter they desire. For condo searches, this is a great tool to narrow…
May Seattle Condo Market Update
May continued to exhibit an active condo market with double digit increases in units sold city-wide. Interestingly, NE Seattle and West Seattle showed the greatest increase in unit sales, mostly attributable to a robust resale market. City-wide, condos appreciated approximately 6% based on average sales price. However, across the board, median prices took a tumble…
