Bellevue
Spruce Street School Clears Permit Hurdle for 20,000 SQFT First Hill Campus Conversion
The 43-year-old private elementary school will trade its leased Denny Triangle home for an owned First Hill building, with classes targeted to begin...
Washington Construction Payrolls Stall as Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue Sheds 2,200 Jobs
Statewide employment held flat at 214,600 in March even as the Puget Sound's largest metro continued a year-long contraction, deepening regional concerns about...
Brokers Bet Seattle Apartments Are Next as San Francisco Rents Surge and Tech Returns
A May 2026 market recap argues the Bay Area's rent explosion and fresh tech leasing from Apple and Anthropic foreshadow a turn for...
Pacific Northwest Office Vacancy Eases to 16.79% as Tech Tenants Drive Q1 2026 Leasing Surge
OpenAI, Uber, Meta and General Motors anchored a quarter of large deals across Seattle and Bellevue as conversions thin the obsolete stock Leasing...
Seattle Lands Among Top Five Global AI Office Markets Despite Rising Vacancy
Tech tenants leased increasing volumes of Seattle office space in 2025 as AI demand pushed the metro into the top tier of global...
Seattle’s Deepest Housing Need Is Also Its Hardest to Build, Says Community Roots CEO
As King County's 2026 income limits inch upward, the gap between minimum-wage earners and the units they can afford keeps widening. The math...
Skager Takes the Helm at Sterling Realty Organization in Generational Leadership Shift
The Bellevue commercial real estate firm elevates its operations chief to president as two longtime leaders step back from day-to-day command. Sterling Realty...
Visitors Flood Back to Downtown Seattle as Office Workforce Keeps Shrinking, April Figures Show
April data shows downtown topping pre-pandemic visitor and tourism levels even as worker foot traffic slides to 60 percent of 2019, exposing a...
Bellevue Pushes Road Safety Audits onto Five More High-Risk Corridors in 2026 Vision Zero Sprint
The city is leveraging $7.1MM in council funding and federal SS4A dollars to convert 13.7 miles of its deadliest streets into quick-build safety...
Vale Matcha & Coffee Leases 36,000 SQFT of Production Space Steps From Seattle’s New Judkins Park Light Rail Station
Building owner Jeff Schoenfeld backfilled the Central District space inside of a week after Atomo Coffee announced its consolidation to California, in a...
Puget Sound Apartment Sales Slide 36% to $664MM in Q1 as Buyers Hold the Line on Pricing
Transaction activity cooled across the region in early 2026 even as occupancy tightened, with Kidder Mathews pointing to a disciplined, yield-driven market still...
Anthropic in Negotiations for 120,000 SQFT Lease at Dexter Yard as AI Startup Doubles Down on Seattle
The Claude maker already holds a 70,000-square-foot short-term lease in the development's south tower and is now eyeing the north tower for a...
