Seattle
AvalonBay and Equity Residential Forge $69B Apartment Titan in All-Stock Merger of Equals
The combination of the nation’s two largest multifamily REITs creates a 180,000-unit powerhouse with dominant positions in Los Angeles, New York and Greater...
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...
64-Unit Silverwood Park in Des Moines Trades for $10MM, Headed for Affordable Housing
A transit-adjacent apartment community near the Kent Des Moines light rail station has changed hands in a deal structured to preserve it as...
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...
Goodman Real Estate Lists for Sale 58-Unit Ellis Court in Seattle’s Belltown
The 1990-vintage waterfront-adjacent building carries a 4.31% interest-only Fannie Mae loan good through 2031 — a financing edge the listing leans on hard...
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...
Pacific Northwest Multifamily Absorption Sinks to Multi-Year Low as Investors Hunt for 2019-Era Pricing
Lee & Associates Q1 2026 report shows transaction volume rebounding even as demand cools, with a thin construction pipeline setting the stage for...
TMR Investments Acquires 91-Unit VIVE Apartments in Seattle’s Ballard Neighborhood for $24.5MM
91-unit multifamily community expands firm’s growing Ballard portfolio and reinforces long-term investment strategy in high-performing urban submarkets (Editor’s Note: According to King County...
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...
Seattle-Tacoma Industrial Vacancy Heads to Record 10.4% as Import Slowdown Tests the Gateway
A fading construction pipeline offers little near-term relief as softer port traffic and tenant consolidations push the region into the bottom tier of...
