Pacific Northwest
Wells Fargo’s Higher Rate Floor Tests Northwest Housing as Data Centers and Power Drive Construction
Wells Fargo's September economic outlook points to a widening split in Pacific Northwest real estate: a data-center and power construction build-out gaining momentum...
Hexagon Energy, Weyerhaeuser Strike Deal for 3 GW of Geothermal Potential Across 145,000 Acres
Hexagon Energy leases geothermal rights on 145,000 acres of Weyerhaeuser timberland in Oregon and Washington, targeting 3 GW of clean power.
Seattle Construction Costs Trail National Pace as Q2 Costs Rise 3.48%
Seattle’s non-residential construction costs kept climbing in the second quarter of 2026, but at a pace that continues to lag the rest of...
Portland Construction Costs Keep Climbing as Building Employment Falls 8%
Portland’s non-residential builders are paying more for labor and materials even as the workforce doing that building shrinks, a divergence that Mortenson Construction’s...
Seattle Life Science Stays Tightest of West Coast Hubs as New Construction Halts
Seattle's life science market entered the second half of 2026 with the lowest vacancy of any major West Coast hub and no space...
Seattle Cements No. 2 Tech Talent Rank as AI Hiring Reshapes the Pacific Northwest
Seattle held firm as North America's second-strongest tech talent market on the strength of double-digit workforce growth and one of the continent's densest...
UMC Welcomes Justin Kim, P.E. as Project Executive
Lynnwood, WA (August 2026) – UMC is excited to welcome Justin Kim, P.E. to UMC as a Project Executive. Justin joins our Business...
Pacific Northwest Holds Top-Tier Data Center Rank as AI Boom Races to Frontier Markets
The Pacific Northwest remains one of North America's ten largest data center markets with 4,170 megawatts of capacity, but JLL's Midyear 2026 report...
Seattle Just Misses Top 20 for U.S. Apartment Absorption as Puget Sound Demand Holds
Seattle fell just short of the top 20 U.S. apartment markets for first-half 2026 net absorption, posting solid demand that nonetheless reflects a...
Spokane Lures Boomers While Seattle Pulls Gen Z: U-Haul’s Midyear Data Maps the Northwest’s Generational Split
U-Haul's 2026 midyear migration report shows the Pacific Northwest attracting movers at opposite ends of the age spectrum — Spokane ranking among the...
Rising Costs Squeeze Essex’s Seattle Apartment Income Even as Q2 Revenue Climbs 1.7%
Essex Property Trust’s Seattle-area apartments posted higher revenue but lower profit in the second quarter of 2026, as a double-digit jump in operating...
Tech Layoffs Drag on Seattle-Area New-Home Demand, D.R. Horton Flags as Q3 Profit Slips
D.R. Horton executives pointed to a wave of software-industry layoffs around Seattle as a leading drag on new-home demand in the Pacific Northwest,...
