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Seattle Housing Experiences High Demands as Tech Companies Continue to Grow
As Housing Trends Normalize, Tech Titans Continue to Drive Demand into Seattle.
Sponsored by Realogics Sensational headlines too quick to call for a housing downturn may face pushback from expansion in the tech industry. Seattle remains the top tech-30 market in North America, according to the CBRE Tech Report, with high-tech jobs expanding 26 percent over the last two years. Colliers Research is tracking nearly 6.5 million…
Market Leaders Cite Strong Demand for Luxury Condominiums
Reservations for priority presales open at Spire Condiminiums two weeks ahead of sales debut.
Sponsored by Realogics Inc. Executives of Laconia Development and Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty (RSIR) announce the commencement of individual unit reservations at SPIRE – a new 347-unit, 41-story high-rise now under construction at 600 Wall Street in Belltown. Following a preview open house on October 13 and 14, the SPIRE sales team accepted 114 first…
Seattle’s Condo Comeback
For the first time in more than a decade, improved selection of “for sale” condominiums and historically low interest rates are making their way back to the housing market.
Sponsored by Realogics Inc. Savvy homebuyers encouraged by improved selection and historically low interest rates are making their way back to the market and developers and brokers are sprinting to catch up. On September 12th Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty (RSIR) sponsored a new condominium showcase at the Fairmont Hotel during the BISNOW Multifamily Annual Conference….
Concern for Seattle’s Housing Crisis is Rising
Downtown condo resale inventory is anemic and price points in Seattle below $500,000 are vanishing.
Sponsored by Realogics, Inc. Downtown Seattle witnessed fewer condominium resales during the first quarter of 2018 compared with the prior year, largely because there were fewer homes to choose from. The lack of supply is further raising concerns about an affordability crisis. Currently, there are only 44 resale homes available for sale in an urban…
5 Smart Ways Baby Boomers Can Navigate Seattle’s Tough Housing Market
How to plan for the future and take advantage of a seller's market.
Sponsored by Realogics, Inc. Maybe it’s just my age (I prefer “mature” or “grown up” to “old”), but I often consider what lies ahead in the next 20 years. How do I want to spend my free time? Where do I want to spend it? How do I want to live? I find that many of my…
A Condo Comeback: 10 New Developments in the Puget Sound Pipeline
Market makers say they will sell more than a half-billion dollars in newly built multi-family units by 2020.
Sponsored by Realogics, Inc. What a difference a decade makes. For the first time in ten years, Realogics Group of Companies and its brokers are again representing ten new multi-family, for-sale condominiums and townhomes in downtown Seattle and surrounding neighborhoods. Although the project marketing specialists admit the current condo cycle is just a fraction of the…
Top 10 Tech Transformations for a Smarter Home
How modern home design is taking the fiction out of sci-fi.
Sponsored by Realogics, Inc. The concept of the smart home is no longer reserved for sci-fi flicks and Jetson-esque cartoons, which just a few short years ago may have seemed lifetimes away. Increasingly more homes are becoming connected, intelligent, and changing the way we live our daily lives, moving us closer to the once fictionalized…
The Condo Conundrum: 10 Reasons Why There’s a ‘For Sale’ Shortage in Seattle
Despite the city's rapid growth, it's not easy to find a condo in Seattle.
Sponsored by Realogics, Inc. Seattle is the fastest-growing large city in the US with home prices rising more than any other metro area in the nation. That means developers are building new condominiums at a record clip, right? Nope, it’s actually the opposite. There is currently a real shortage of in-city condominiums, resulting in high median…
10 Most Prominent Transportation Initiatives in Puget Sound
Seattle’s growth comes with a price for commuters, which will test our patience and potentially change where and how we live.
Sponsored by Realogics, Inc. In 1907, when Seattle annexed Ballard, Ravenna and West Seattle, transportation meant nothing more than sailing routes, roads, bridges and sometimes cow paths. Today, transportation networks are technological systems whose scopes range from international airport instruments to GPS-enabled devices on your dashboard or in your pocket. New applications are transforming every…
Seattle Listed as #1 City for Chinese Homebuyers
FutureCast Forum members outline the top ten reasons why Seattle is so popular.
Sponsored by Realogics, Inc. Ni Hao, Seattle! We’re number one in the eyes of mainland Chinese homebuyers exploring overseas investment in real estate. That’s according to Juwai.com, a popular home search site within China, and this finding is tracking with other data points according to local brokers that specialize in international homebuyers. “Seattle is most certainly…
10 Game-Changing Policies and Drivers Affecting Development in the Puget Sound
William Hillis, Broker & Research Editor at Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty breaks down what this means for the future of Seattle and its surroundings.
Sponsored by Realogics, Inc. Perhaps it’s living together in a place of such abundant beauty and economic opportunity that brings out so many competing ideas about what our city and the region should look like, how people should live and commute, and what powers government should exert. Together with ever-greater diversity, attitudes on these matters in…
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