Outlook
The Registry Ranks: Puget Sound Apartment Submarkets for Value-Add Buyers — East King Wins, Pierce County Needs a Discount
Regional apartment vacancy is 6.7%, cap rates sit near 5.7%, and 19,368 units are still under construction. We ranked seven Puget Sound submarkets...
The Registry Ranks: Puget Sound Industrial Submarkets for Investors — Buy the Eastside, Fear Pierce County
Puget Sound industrial vacancy is 9.4% and the headline absorption number is being carried by a single Amazon owner-user deal. We ranked ten...
The Registry Ranks: Puget Sound Office Submarkets for AI Tenants — Bellevue Wins, and Downtown Seattle Isn’t Dead (It’s Just on Sale)
AI firms have driven roughly a fifth of Seattle-area leasing this year. We ranked seven submarkets for one specific buyer — an AI...
Seeing is Believing: HITT Contracting’s Kris Beason Sees Diversity as Potential Solution to Construction Labor Shortage
By Meghan Hall There are a lot of challenges that the regional construction industry faces on a regular basis as the Puget Sound...
CPA Experts: Tax Changes Posed Challenges for Commercial Real Estate Professionals in 2019
By Meghan Hall Tax season has come and gone, but for many within the commercial real estate industry, questions remain. As CRE firms...
Downtown Spokane Attracts Investors Through Record Growth
By Bekka Wiedenmeyer Spokane has established itself as a rising competitor in the Washington business market, as cheaper rents and more availability for...
It Seems Impossible Until it is Done: MBAKS’ Kathleen Sims on Addressing the Puget Sound’s Regional Housing Crisis
By Meghan Hall The Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties (MBAKS) has been around for more than 100 years and has...
Look out Seattle, Bellevue’s Office Leasing Market is on the Rise
By Meghan Hall Over the course of the past market cycle, Seattle has largely been regarded as the epicenter of the region’s growth,...
Report: San Francisco, Seattle Poised for “Century of Biology”
By Meghan Hall Lab inventory size, high numbers of industry scientists and plenty of NIH and venture capital funding: Combined, these are the ingredients...
Rate of Development in Seattle Prompts Rapid Change in Construction Workforce and Demographics
By Meghan Hall Seattle’s commercial real estate industry use to be tightly-knit; development projects were easy to track and many of the region’s...
Seattle Reaches $16 Billion in Investment Sales Volume in 2018
By Meghan Hall Over the course of the last market cycle, the Puget Sound has become a gateway market, piquing the interest of...
Laird Norton Properties and Heartland LLC Look to New Markets Amid Strategic Merger
By Meghan Hall Between them, Laird Norton Properties (LNP) and Heartland LLC have more than a century’s worth of experience in Seattle’s real...