Tag: Seattle Condos
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…
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 –…
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.…
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…
Luxe Condos – Queen Anne
The Luxe Condominium (website) located at 500 5th Avenue West on lower Queen Anne is the newest conversion project by Metropolitan Homes. Metropolitan recently developed the Plaza del Sol and Mezzo condo projects on Capitol Hill. Luxe consists of only 39 one- and two-bedroom condominium homes including multi-level penthouses that surround a central atrium. The…
