Real Estate
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…
Design Insights
Came across the website for the architect of 5th and Madison, Ruffcorn Mott Hinthorne Stine, and noticed they had designs for number of downtown/Belltown projects. Most were office space but they did have renderings for 114 Pike, the old Liberty Loan and Pawn building. The design includes 7 levels of office space and 5 residential…
5th and Madison Update
The tall, slender 5th and Madison (website) project is well underway across the street from the Seattle Central Library. Occupancy is on-target for October making the project one of the few due to be completed this year. I had an opportunity to take a hard hat tour of the building to see how it was…
The Friday Round-up – 5/25
Land Use Update Just saw a bulletin for a new 46-story hotel/residential project at the corner of 5th Avenue & Stewart which is currently a parking lot (next to the Escala presentation center). The proposal calls for 175 hotel units and 190 residential units which I presume will be condos. A 2nd early design meeting…
ICON Tower Info
Laconia Development (fomerly Levin Menzies) received city-approval for the master-use permit of its 29 32-story ICON Tower. Designed by Weber+Thompson and Vancouver, BC – based engineering firm Glotman Simpson, the slender tower sits on a triangular 10,665 square foot parcel at Denny Way, Wall Street & 6th Avenue. Construction is slated to begin in early…
Entry-Level Inventory Shrinkage
The Seattle Times recently had an interesting graph on the availability of entry-level condos over the past 15 years. The last few years have seen a drastic decrease in sub $200,000 properties. The majority of buyers that my team and I work with are first-time homebuyers and we definitely feel the squeeze. In fact, under…
