Brookfield’s Infrastructure Fund VI Hits $26B as the Northwest’s Data Center Power Squeeze Raises the Stakes
Brookfield Asset Management has gathered $26 billion for its sixth flagship infrastructure fund, which Oregon backed with a smaller check than before, just...
Seattle Children’s Hospital Pays $46MM for Renton’s Cedar River Corporate Park
The pediatric health system bought a 12.4-acre flex campus across the street from the Renton office portfolio it bought from Providence in 2022,...
Legacy Partners Pays $10.7MM for Fremont Site, Landmarked Shannon & Wilson Building to Launch 170-Unit Seattle Apartment Project
Bay Area developer Legacy Partners has closed more than $10.7 million in land purchases around 3652 Woodland Park Ave. N. in Seattle's Fremont...
Auburn Buyer Pays $17.5MM for Shuttered 167,000 SQFT Fred Meyer on Kent’s East Hill
Fred Meyer Stores Inc. has sold its closed 166,593-square-foot store at 10201 SE 240th St. in Kent to an Auburn-based limited liability company...
America Still Builds Houses Like It’s 1925. Sweden, Germany and Japan Would Like a Word
While Swedish, German and Japanese homebuilders long ago moved much of the work indoors, the US still builds 97 percent of its conventional...
State-Leased DSHS Office Building in Federal Way Listed for $7MM
A one-story Federal Way office building leased to the state of Washington through early 2031 is for sale for $7 million, giving investors...
Amtrak Opens $250MM, 100,000 SQFT Train Maintenance Facility at Seattle’s King Street Yard, $50MM Under Budget
Amtrak has opened a nearly 100,000-square-foot maintenance and inspection facility at its King Street Yard in Seattle's SoDo district, finishing the $250 million...
Everett Will Launch Govstream.ai Permit Intake in Spring 2027, Aiming to Cut ADU Approvals From 252 Days to 90
After a three-month pilot showed that most missing-document problems could be caught before an application ever reached a city reviewer, Everett plans to...
Vermont Has 802 Homes. Washington and Oregon Need Their Own Catalogs
Vermont is about to give builders 10 free, pre-approved home designs, a template the Pacific Northwest could use to turn scattered local plan...
Washington, Oregon Tie for Third in Rutgers Ranking of Affordable Housing on Church Land
Washington and Oregon together delivered more than 1,000 affordable units on religious property over the past decade, according to a Rutgers University study...
Children’s Apparel Brand Little Bipsy Leases 67,000 SQFT at Vector Development’s Twin Lakes Logistics in Marysville
Everett-based baby and toddler clothing brand Little Bipsy signed a 67,311-square-foot new lease at Twin Lakes Logistics in Marysville, bringing an e-commerce fulfillment...
Eastside Office Vacancy Climbs to 22.4%, but 755,000 SQFT of Signed Bellevue Leases Wait in the Wings
Broderick Group's third-quarter data shows the Eastside shed 292,618 square feet of occupied office space and pushed vacancy to 22.4 percent, but a...
Brookfield’s Infrastructure Fund VI Hits $26B as the Northwest’s Data Center Power Squeeze Raises the Stakes
Brookfield Asset Management has gathered $26 billion for its sixth flagship infrastructure fund, which Oregon backed with a smaller check than before, just...
Vermont Has 802 Homes. Washington and Oregon Need Their Own Catalogs
Vermont is about to give builders 10 free, pre-approved home designs, a template the Pacific Northwest could use to turn scattered local plan...
Washington, Oregon Tie for Third in Rutgers Ranking of Affordable Housing on Church Land
Washington and Oregon together delivered more than 1,000 affordable units on religious property over the past decade, according to a Rutgers University study...
Permira Takes Control of Flint Group, Owner of Seattle and Portland Trades Brands South West, As You Wish and Wolfer’s, in $1.5B Deal
Permira has agreed to buy a majority stake in Flint Group from General Atlantic in a deal reportedly valued above $1.5 billion, handing...
Washington County Opens $3.7MM, 60-Pod Next Step Community Shelter Village in Aloha
Washington County has moved its temporary pod shelter in Aloha to a permanent site it owns. The $3.7 million village was paid for...
Realvest Taps Security Properties Veteran Sarah Zahn as CEO to Grow Pacific Northwest Apartment Portfolio
Realvest Corp., the Vancouver, Wash., apartment owner founded by the late Paul Christensen more than five decades ago, has named Sarah Zahn chief...
Brookfield’s Infrastructure Fund VI Hits $26B as the Northwest’s Data Center Power Squeeze Raises the Stakes
Brookfield Asset Management has gathered $26 billion for its sixth flagship infrastructure fund, which Oregon backed with a smaller check than before, just...
Seattle Apartment Cap Rates Climb to 5.7%, Highest Since at Least 2018, as Prices Sit 29% Below 2019 Peak
Seattle's average apartment cap rate rose nearly a full percentage point in a year to 5.7 percent in the second quarter of 2026,...
Seattle Falls to 38th in ULI-PwC Emerging Trends 2027 Rankings Even as Office Leasing Hits Best Pace Since 2019
Seattle dropped 16 spots to 38th in the Urban Land Institute and PwC's Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2027 market rankings, its steepest...
America Still Builds Houses Like It’s 1925. Sweden, Germany and Japan Would Like a Word
While Swedish, German and Japanese homebuilders long ago moved much of the work indoors, the US still builds 97 percent of its conventional...
Vermont Has 802 Homes. Washington and Oregon Need Their Own Catalogs
Vermont is about to give builders 10 free, pre-approved home designs, a template the Pacific Northwest could use to turn scattered local plan...
Salad Days Are Over: Why Protein and Caffeine Are Winning the Restaurant Real Estate Race
By John Cumbelich October 5, 2026 – True Food Kitchen files for bankruptcy. Is anyone shocked by the news that yet another salad...
Dinked: Have We Hit Peak Pickleball?
The Picklr’s Chapter 11 filing, driven by lease guarantees on roughly 40 franchise locations, may be the first sign that indoor pickleball’s real...
The First Footprints in the Snow
AI's hit to jobs looks like a rounding error—until you see who's in the oven: gutted call centers and vanishing entry-level work. Narrow...
McNellis: Economists vs. Flipping Coins
Economist: {noun}: someone good with numbers but without enough personality to be an accountant.
Kirkland Entity Pays $13.2MM for 42,000 SQFT Former Chimneys Condo Site in Bellevue
Kirkland-based Deal 100 LLC has paid $13.2 million for a vacant 41,667-square-foot Bellevue parcel at 115 100th Ave. NE, the former home of...
Amazon Advances Southeast Washington Data Center Push With 660,000 SQFT Wallula Campus and Up to 21 Buildings in West Richland
As Hillsboro’s data center vacancy falls to 0.21 percent and Central Washington inventory nearly doubles, Amazon is looking to the Tri-Cities area, near...
36-Unit Five Ten Place in Seattle’s Queen Anne Trades for $10.8MM
A Seattle-based buyer operating as 510 Apartments LLC paid $10.8 million for Five Ten Place, a 36-unit, 1990-vintage apartment building on Fourth Avenue...
Permira Takes Control of Flint Group, Owner of Seattle and Portland Trades Brands South West, As You Wish and Wolfer’s, in $1.5B Deal
Permira has agreed to buy a majority stake in Flint Group from General Atlantic in a deal reportedly valued above $1.5 billion, handing...
Washington County Opens $3.7MM, 60-Pod Next Step Community Shelter Village in Aloha
Washington County has moved its temporary pod shelter in Aloha to a permanent site it owns. The $3.7 million village was paid for...
MAJ Development’s 17,000 SQFT Royle Ridge Station Grocery Box in Ridgefield Holds a Quarter of Portland’s Shrunken Retail Pipeline
The 16,902-square-foot project at Pioneer Street and North Royle Road, which local permit trackers tie to a Grocery Outlet store in MAJ Development's...
Discovery Ridge’s 16,000 SQFT Phase 3 at 448 S Royle Rd Rounds Out Ridgefield’s Hold on Portland’s Retail Pipeline
The 16,000-square-foot third phase of the Discovery Ridge retail center, pre-leased in part to Firehouse Subs and marketed at $38 per square foot...
Stoel Rives Trades One Union for Tower 1201 and F5 Gives Back 77,000 SQFT as Downtown Seattle’s Move-Outs Turn Into Musical Chairs
Behind Downtown Seattle's third-quarter move-outs, F5 handed back 77,000 square feet at its namesake tower while Stoel Rives left One Union Square for...
