The Portal Sells for $690 per square foot, despite ongoing pandemic
SEATTLE, Wash. (March 19, 2021) – Colliers Pacific Northwest Multifamily Advisor team of Tim McKay, Dan Chhan, Sam Wayne, and Matt Kemper are pleased to announce the sale of The Portal, a 56-unit mixed-use apartment building located at 743 N 35th Street in the heart of Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood.
The Portal sold for $21,350,000, which equates to $690 per net rentable square foot ($381,250 per unit), and represents the third-highest sales price per square foot ever achieved in Seattle for a building with fewer than 100 units. Furthermore, The Portal was sold pre-stabilization, closing just 90 days after certificate of occupancy.
McKay, Chhan, Wayne and Kemper executed a customized marketing campaign on behalf of the mezzanine lender in late Spring, 2020. The Portal was still under construction at the time, and uncertainty was high with a global pandemic raging, statewide stay-at-home orders in effect and travel restricted. The Colliers team leveraged new technologies such as Matterport and Zoom to tour out-of-market buyers that were unable to travel through the building that, as well as hard-hat tours complete with masking, contact tracing and temperature checks for those who were able to meet in-person safely. As a result of their pioneering approach the Colliers team was able to create intense competition – conducting 35 in-person tours, collecting nearly 20 offers, and ultimately achieving a new record-breaking sales price.
The buyer was a local family office in a 1031 exchange who was represented by Pacific Crest. McKay, Chhan, Wayne, Kemper represented the buyer for that exchange’s down leg that closed in 2020.
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