Real Estate
Friday Condo Round-up
With competition fierce many projects are offering buyers sweet incentives. Here are a few: CityView Leschi – $5,000 buyer bonus PLUS 1-year paid homeowner dues. Queen Anne High School – $10,000 buyer bonus for homes sold in May. Both require buyers facilitate loans through the preferred lender for the buyer bonuses. Trace Lofts Buyer’s…
Expo 62 to Begin Sales
The Expo 62 project has been sold as an apartment building. After much anticipation for lower Queen Anne’s newest condominium community, Expo 62 will begin sales starting Tuesday, May 22nd by appointment only. Prior to the purchase & sales appointment, now through May 20th, interested buyers should schedule a home preview and selection appointment and…
What is a Condo Reserve Study?
Farren West is the owner of Key Inspection Services. This is the second article of Farren’s series for SCL. Farren can be contacted at FarrenWest (at) KeyInspectionServices.com. Once you and your real estate professional have found the right condo to meet your needs, the best location/price/aesthetics/etc you will now begin the process to understanding the…
Happy Blogiversary
Today is our One Year Blogiversary! We’ve had a great year, even when it seems like it’s been longer. To all of our loyal and new readers…a very grateful “Thank you” for your support of Seattle Condos and Lofts. To celebrate, we’re having a drawing for a $50 Starbucks gift card. To enter, click here…
Seattle Condo Expo – updated info
The 2007 Seattle Condo Expo is fast approaching. The expo, the first of its kind in Seattle, will be held this weekend at the Westin Hotel (map) and will feature exhibits of current condo projects, mortgage companies & developers, presentations and a Realtor Symposium. Saturday, May 19th – 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM Sunday,…
2200 Receives Award for Excellence Honor
Vulcan Real Estate announced that its 2200 project has been nationally recognized by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) as one of 10 winners from across the country in the 2007 Awards for Excellence competition. The award is widely recognized as the country’s most prestigious land-use recognition program. The criteria for the award include leadership, contribution…
April Condo Market Update
Month to month results from March to April, were less than stellar. Citywide, condo sales increased 7.8% with downtown seeing a 82% increase in sold units compared to March. However, sold prices remained flat overall. In a few core neighborhoods, prices reflect a downturn from the previous month. Compared to a year ago, the Seattle…
Friday Odds and Ends – 5/4
Land Use Updates The Liberty Jewelry parcel by 2nd Avenue & Pike Street appears to be a commercial development per the latest land use bulletin. Initially, it was proposed as a mixed-use development. An early design review meeting has been set for the 9th & Pine project (former site of Pande Cameron). The proposal calls…
Types of Condo Inspections
(Please welcome contributing writer, Farren West, owner of Key Inspection Services. Farren will be writing a series of condo inspection related articles, which many buyers will find invaluable.) Generally there are two types of condo/townhouse inspections. The first and most popular is the “Interior Only” inspection. This will cover everything from the sheetrock in, or…
Fini Condos – Phinney Ridge
Fini Condominiums (website) is the latest condo project in the Phinney Ridge / Greenwood neighborhood, just up the hill from Green Lake. The building features 51 spacious one-bedroom (6), one + den (31), two-bedroom (3) and two + den (11) homes ranging from 728 to 1,417 sq ft. The top-level 1,417 sq ft penthouses also…
