Pacific Northwest
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,...
ICE Expands GEO Group’s Tacoma Facility, Seeks 1,500 More Beds Near Seattle
Federal immigration authorities are moving to sharply enlarge their detention footprint across Washington while insisting they have no plans for Oregon, even as...
Prologis Flags Seattle as Its Softest Logistics Market as National Warehouse Recovery Accelerates
Even as Prologis declared the industrial property cycle firmly in a new phase of growth, executives singled out Seattle as the softest of...
Seattle Ranks as Nation’s No. 3 AI Metro in Hubble Study as Tech Tenants Anchor Puget Sound Office Recovery
Hubble’s new ranking of the most AI-ready U.S. metros names Seattle the country’s third-strongest AI hub and the highest-scoring market outside the Bay...
UW’s Iconic Suzzallo Library Gets a $21.5MM Seismic Overhaul to Survive the Next Century in Seattle
The University of Washington is spending $21.5 million to anchor Suzzallo Library’s masonry, towers and 18 exterior statues against the next major Cascadia...
Seattle Halts New Large Data Centers With Emergency One-Year Moratorium After 369-Megawatt Wave of Proposals
The Seattle City Council voted unanimously on June 9 to freeze the siting of large data centers for one year, becoming the largest...
Seattle Cracks Top Five U.S. Downtowns for Stickiness as Portland Lags on Vibrancy, Gensler Finds
Seattle landed among the five most magnetic downtowns in the United States in Gensler’s latest global study of urban experience, even as neighboring...
Cresa Portland Adds BC Group in Push to Build One-Stop Advisory Platform
The merger folds the 22-year-old development and construction management firm into Cresa’s Portland office, extending an acquisition streak aimed at occupier clients across...
Seattle Posts Highest Vacancy Increase Among Tech Gateways Even as Bellevue Anchors AI Leasing Recovery
CBRE’s 2026 Tech Gateway Office Markets report shows Seattle’s downtown and Eastside drawing top-five U.S. AI tenant demand while overall vacancy climbs 500...
