Student Housing Is Now an Institutional Asset Class, and Seattle’s U District Is the Northwest’s Proving Ground
Blackstone, KKR and Greystar have made purpose-built student housing a core institutional holding, and the high-rise wave around the University of Washington, unleashed...
Vintage Aviation Museum Acquires Historic Tillamook WWII Blimp Hangar for $1 as Roof Repairs Begin
The Port of Tillamook Bay has handed one of the largest wooden structures in the world to a Utah nonprofit for a single...
Oregon’s Labor Force Participation Holds Above the U.S. Average but Stays Far Below Its Peak
Federal labor data shows 62.4 percent of Oregonians were working or looking for work in July, a rate that edges out both the...
Washington Commerce Opens Comment Period on Draft Transit-Oriented Development Guidebook
The state has published a draft guidebook intended to walk cities through a zoning mandate few of them asked for but all of...
Arlington-Based Entity Buys 70,000 SQFT Kent Warehouse Occupied by The BoxMaker for $12.5MM
The sale closes even as Kent Valley’s industrial vacancy climbs and the Southend submarket posts more than a million square feet of negative...
North Star Glove Company Doubles Tacoma Footprint to 66,000 SQFT in One of Pierce County’s Largest Leases
A 116-year-old Tacoma glove manufacturer is betting on vertical integration over outsourcing, more than doubling its footprint in a historic South End building...
Portland Sheds 26,800 Jobs as Apartment Absorption Collapses 76% to 2,150 Units
Seven straight quarters of job losses have drained renter demand out of the Portland apartment market, cutting net move-ins by more than three-quarters...
Schnitzer Sees a Smaller, Housing-Led Downtown as Portland’s Path Back
Longtime Portland owner Jordan Schnitzer says the city's downtown must shed a glut of office space and convert to housing and waterfront life...
Washington Ends Data Center Equipment Tax Break as Hardware Nears 93% of Capex
Senate Bill 6231 stripped the sales tax exemption from data center equipment repair and replacement statewide on July 1, landing squarely on the...
California, Texas and Washington Together Drive More Than 26% of U.S. GDP
New figures from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis show that the three states anchoring The Registry's coverage — California, Texas and Washington...
Chinese Developer Binjiang Offloads Seattle’s 142-Room Sound Hotel for $35MM
A Hangzhou Binjiang Real Estate Group affiliate has cashed out of the boutique hotel it helped build atop Belltown’s Arrivé tower, transferring the...
South Sound Industrial Splits in Two as Big Tenants Return and Small-Bay Absorption Stalls at 9.8% Vacancy
Lee & Associates' August South Sound industrial report shows overall vacancy easing to 9.8 percent as tenants chasing blocks of 300,000 square feet...
Vintage Aviation Museum Acquires Historic Tillamook WWII Blimp Hangar for $1 as Roof Repairs Begin
The Port of Tillamook Bay has handed one of the largest wooden structures in the world to a Utah nonprofit for a single...
Oregon’s Labor Force Participation Holds Above the U.S. Average but Stays Far Below Its Peak
Federal labor data shows 62.4 percent of Oregonians were working or looking for work in July, a rate that edges out both the...
Portland Sheds 26,800 Jobs as Apartment Absorption Collapses 76% to 2,150 Units
Seven straight quarters of job losses have drained renter demand out of the Portland apartment market, cutting net move-ins by more than three-quarters...
Schnitzer Sees a Smaller, Housing-Led Downtown as Portland’s Path Back
Longtime Portland owner Jordan Schnitzer says the city's downtown must shed a glut of office space and convert to housing and waterfront life...
Portland Council Lines Up Albina Vision Trust for 10 City-Owned Rose Quarter Parcels
Portland's council has tied the future of ten publicly owned parcels around the Moda Center to a single nonprofit, starting a 12-month clock...
Portland Apartment Pipeline Contracts to 1,953 Units as 2026 Completions Head for 56% Drop
Northmarq's latest research shows Portland's apartment development pipeline has fallen below 2,000 units after three years of contraction, and the firm expects that...
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Student Housing Is Now an Institutional Asset Class, and Seattle’s U District Is the Northwest’s Proving Ground
Blackstone, KKR and Greystar have made purpose-built student housing a core institutional holding, and the high-rise wave around the University of Washington, unleashed...
South Sound Industrial Splits in Two as Big Tenants Return and Small-Bay Absorption Stalls at 9.8% Vacancy
Lee & Associates' August South Sound industrial report shows overall vacancy easing to 9.8 percent as tenants chasing blocks of 300,000 square feet...
Everwild Nordic Spas Hunts Washington Sites, Targeting 80,000 SQFT Urban Buildings and 5-Acre Parcels
First Western Properties has been tapped to source Washington acquisition targets for Everwild Nordic Spas & Hotels, the Basecamp Resorts brand that is...
McNellis: One House, One Spouse — A Guide to CRE Wealth Preservation
Why razor-thin overhead and the 'one house, one spouse' rule are the keys to preserving wealth in real estate and in life.
McNellis: In Denial Over the New Normal
By John McNellis Developers always crash and burn in the movies. The eternal bad guy, the developers’ heinous plans to pave a beach,...
Seattle v. Bellevue: The Tortoise Wears a Patagonia Vest
Bellevue is trouncing Seattle on occupancy, but occupancy is the lagging indicator—and the talent that fills tomorrow’s offices still wants the messy city...
The Art of the Quiet Exit, A Hudson Pacific Story
Hudson Pacific’s COO resigned with the usual boilerplate denial attached—but after a $572 million annual loss, a scrapped dividend and a stock down...
A Shot in the (Life Science) Arm for Puget Sound
Eli Lilly’s $1.5 billion cash deal for Bothell-based Curevo Vaccine is the kind of validating, capital-attracting exit Puget Sound’s life sciences cluster has...
The Data Center Bargain: What Every Town Should Demand
Free power. Free heat. Clean water. The bargain every town should be demanding. By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous)...
New Data Splits Washington in Two: Spokane’s Peer Group Is Boise, Not Seattle
A California investment manager has published a 21-year federal data model that treats Greater Seattle as a coastal primary market and counts Washington's...
Portland Council Lines Up Albina Vision Trust for 10 City-Owned Rose Quarter Parcels
Portland's council has tied the future of ten publicly owned parcels around the Moda Center to a single nonprofit, starting a 12-month clock...
Cowboy Space Leases 291,000 SQFT CenterPoint Facility in Kent for Rocket Manufacturing Hub
A Robinhood co-founder’s space startup has claimed the largest industrial lease signed in the Puget Sound region so far this year, converting a...
150,000 SQFT Former Fred Meyer in Tacoma Hits Sublease Market While Kroger’s Lease Runs to 2046
A shuttered South End Tacoma Fred Meyer hits the sublease market even as Kroger's rent obligation to landlord Benderson Development runs through 2046.
PCP Plans 731 Units in Three Downtown Redmond Towers Near Light Rail
Cleveland-based PCP plans 731 apartments across three Redmond developments, starting with the 217-unit Rove near light rail.
Portland Apartment Pipeline Contracts to 1,953 Units as 2026 Completions Head for 56% Drop
Northmarq's latest research shows Portland's apartment development pipeline has fallen below 2,000 units after three years of contraction, and the firm expects that...
Seattle Sits Out the National Office Occupancy Index Even as Puget Sound Landlords Chase the Same Answer
The most widely cited measure of the American return to office does not track Seattle, leaving Puget Sound owners and lenders to benchmark...
Oregon Lands on Battery Storage’s Map as Washington Towns Move to Block Grid-Scale Sites
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence named Oregon among the states driving pipeline growth in the largest battery storage quarter the country has ever recorded, even...
