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Seattle Office Availability Eases to 32.1% in Q2 2026 as Big Tech and AI Leases Anchor Downtown
Seattle’s battered office market posted its first meaningful improvement in availability in several quarters, as a burst of large technology and professional-services leases...
Puget Sound Office Leasing Reaches 4.6MM SQFT in First Half, Strongest Since 2019 as Availability Slides to 26.5%
The Seattle/Puget Sound office market posted 2.4 million square feet of leasing in the second quarter of 2026 and 4.6 million square feet...
Puget Sound Industrial Vacancy Climbs Across All Submarkets, But Deal Flow Signals Tenants Have Stopped Waiting
Vacancy rates rose across South Seattle, Greater King County and Pierce County in the latest 60-day reading of the Puget Sound industrial market,...
Metro’s $652.8MM Housing Bond Delivers 5,379 Affordable Homes Across Portland Region, Blowing Past Original Target
Eight years after Portland-area voters approved a $652.8 million bond to confront a deepening housing crisis, Metro’s 2025 annual report shows the measure...
Seattle Life Sciences Vacancy Spikes to 19% as Alexandria Converts Lab Site to Apartments and Astellas Exits Stem Cell Operation
Seattle’s life sciences vacancy rate surged 540 basis points year over year to 19 percent in the second quarter as new lab space...
Downtown Bellevue’s Big Blocks Are Vanishing: Full-Floor Options Drop to 124 in Q2 2026, Down 51 From Peak
Downtown Bellevue’s supply of full-floor and large-block office space is thinning fast, with 24 floors stripped from the market in a single quarter...
520 Corridor Office Market Treads Water in Q2 2026 With Vacancy Near 17%
The 520 Corridor office submarket largely marked time in the second quarter of 2026, with vacancy near 17 percent and absorption slipping slightly...
I-90 Corridor Office Vacancy Holds Above 40% in Q2 2026, the Eastside’s Most Distressed Submarket
The I-90 Corridor remained the Eastside’s most distressed office submarket in the second quarter of 2026, with more than 40 percent of its...
New York Clears First-in-Nation Data Center Moratorium, and the West Coast Is Watching
New York lawmakers have approved a one-year freeze on state permits for large data centers, the first statewide moratorium in the country and...
Issaquah Council Sends $18MM Park Bond to November Ballot to Unlock $24MM in Fields, Trails and Recreation Projects
Issaquah voters will decide this fall whether to renew an expiring park bond and commit up to $18 million toward a two-decade slate...
Mercer Island Office Vacancy Plunges to 2.9% in Q2 2026, Tightest Market on the Eastside
Mercer Island, the smallest office submarket on the Eastside, tightened to a 2.9 percent vacancy rate in the second quarter of 2026, leaving...
Bothell Office Market Stabilizes in Q2 2026 With Positive Absorption as Vacancy Eases to 20.4%
Bothell, the most affordable office submarket on the Eastside, swung to positive absorption in the second quarter of 2026, trimming its stubbornly high...
