Seattle
Sound Transit Chair Floats Scaled-Back Ballard Link, Issaquah Delay To Close $34.5B Gap
Resolution R2026-11 would truncate the region’s highest-ridership light rail line at Seattle Center and push the South Kirkland-to-Issaquah extension to 2050 Sound Transit...
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...
Port of Seattle Unveils 31-Project Blueprint to Expand SEA for 56 Million Passengers by 2032
The Port’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement opens public comment on a sweeping near-term expansion anchored by a second terminal and 19 new gates....
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...
