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Apartment Titans AvalonBay and Equity Residential Eye $50B Merger That Could Redraw US Rental Map
The two largest US apartment REITs are in early-stage talks on a combination that would create a roughly 200,000-unit landlord and reignite REIT...
Bellevue Commits Record $37MM to Deliver 271 Affordable Units in Largest Housing Round in City History
Four developers secured funding to advance income-restricted apartments and ownership homes across the Eastside, with two projects breaking ground this year. Bellevue is...
Bellevue Kicks Off Master Plan for 8-Acre Bel-Red Park as Transit Corridor Densifies
The city’s Parks department opened a year-long community planning process for a former industrial site adjacent to the Spring District, with construction backed...
Equity Residential Bets on Bellevue-Redmond as Seattle Apartment Market Trails San Francisco’s AI Recovery
The REIT’s 8,051-unit Seattle portfolio underperformed in Q1 2026, but executives see Eastside office momentum and migration patterns positioning the metro for a...
Seattle Holds Steady for BXP as Downtown Vacancy Climbs to 36.5%
The largest premier workplace REIT keeps its two-asset Seattle CBD portfolio at 80.7 percent occupied even as the broader downtown market posts the...
Essex Signals Seattle Apartment Market Poised to Close the Gap with the Bay Area
The West Coast multifamily giant points to dwindling supply, fresh office expansions and improving April leasing data as evidence Seattle’s recovery is underway....
Kraken to Break Ground on $60MM Kirkland Iceplex as Hockey Surge Outstrips Northgate
Public-private deal hands the NHL franchise a 34-year, $1-per-year ground lease on a five-acre Eastside site, opening a second front for a youth...
Seattle’s Expense Discipline Pays Off: Essex Cuts Operating Costs 3.4% and Drives 4.9% NOI Growth
The Pacific Northwest delivered Essex Property Trust’s largest expense reduction of any region in Q1 2026, leveraging modest 2.3 percent revenue growth into...
LIHI Plans 32-Unit Belmont Tiny House Village on Seattle’s Capitol Hill
The $1.1 million emergency shelter will occupy a cleared lot on Belmont Avenue while the Downtown Emergency Service Center advances plans for a...
Alexandria’s 701 Dexter Crosses Toward Stabilization As Seattle Lab Demand Reawakens
Lake Union flagship anchors Alexandria’s bet on the region’s institutional research base while peripheral inventory languishes. Seattle’s life science real estate market is...
Tacoma’s Missing Middle Bet Pays Off: Permits Jump 39%, Units Surge 62% in First Year of Rezone
Home In Tacoma is producing density gains even as building permits across the broader Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue region fall 17.3 percent year-over-year — a divergence...
Pacific Urban Tests Eastside Multifamily Demand With Listing of 180-Unit Knoll Redmond
Palo Alto investor takes Microsoft-adjacent garden community to market three years after $71.3MM acquisition, betting on tech-driven Eastside fundamentals as regional sales volume...
