Pacific Northwest
Portland Leads Nation in Q3 Coworking Growth, Expanding Location Count 10% to 87 Spaces
Portland grew its coworking location count faster than any other top-50 U.S. market in the third quarter, adding eight spaces to reach 87...
Perkins&Will Taps Seattle Architect Chris Beza to Lead Its Commercial Practice
Perkins&Will has brought in Chris Beza, a lifelong Seattle resident with more than 20 years of Pacific Northwest practice, as managing principal of...
Seattle Tech Job Openings Hit Pre-COVID Levels as Essex Bets on an Eastside Apartment Rebound
Essex Property Trust told analysts that tech job openings in Seattle have climbed back to their pre-pandemic average for the first time in...
Seattle, Portland Rents Trail Midwest Peers Despite Near-Identical Apartment Supply Since 2023
ApartmentIQ figures for the 53 largest U.S. metros show Seattle and Portland expanded their apartment stock at almost exactly the same pace as...
Pacific Industrial Taps Link Logistics Veteran Bud Pharris as CEO to Drive Western U.S. Expansion
Long Beach-based developer Pacific Industrial has hired Bud Pharris, who ran Blackstone-owned Link Logistics' nine-market West Region, as chief executive officer to steer...
Newmark Taps Jake Gustafson as Northwest Director of Engineering to Back Washington and Oregon Property Teams
Newmark has hired Jake Gustafson as Director of Engineering for the Northwest, placing a dedicated engineering leader alongside the property management teams that...
Cushing Terrell Buys Seattle’s Graphite Design Group, Growing Local Architecture Team to 30-Plus
Cushing Terrell has absorbed Seattle architecture firm Graphite Design Group, taking on its team, contracts and client relationships and building a Seattle architecture...
Trepp: Seattle Office Slips, but Seattle Apartments and Portland Self-Storage Rank Among West’s Safest
Trepp analysts told a national webinar audience that Seattle's office market is weakening at the margins, even as the metro's multifamily loans and...
Seattle Absent From Top 10 as $2.26T Exit Boom Rewards Bay Area, Dallas and Denver
A new Deloitte and PitchBook report tracking a record $2.26 trillion in U.S. expansion-stage company exits during the first half of 2026 shows...
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...
