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Buy dirt - they aren’t making any more of it.
Seriously, does anyone think buying real estate - commercial/industrial especially in the Puget Sound area is a bad idea? Please me know why. I just don’t see it. We are expected to welcome an additional 1.7 million people to this area in the next 30 years. THE best article I have ever read about Seattle appears in September issue of Smithsonian Magazine. Truly, you will understand the appeal of this corner of the world after reading it.
There is going to have to be some imaginative financing/seller financing/trades going on for awhile - but it really will be good to get back to old fashioned basics. There are tremendous value now - instead of “pie in the sky” value - real honest to goodness value here in the Northwest.
This whole mess with the financial institutions vaporizing and the trickle-down affect it will have, reminds me of a scene from Dr. Zhivago when Geraldine Chaplin’s character thought of her life of affluence and then how a dozen families were living in their former home and said: “It is much more fair”. Get ready for a lot of “fair”.
Commercial/Industrial Real Estate in South Seattle Market
My observations about the commercial/industrial real estate market have been greatly expanded since joining Colliers International. With a world-wide reach, Colliers is in the top ten on the planet for Leasing, Buying, Selling, Managing and Managing investment real estate. We had a visitor from the Shanghai China office sharing with us some of the […]
November 28th 2007 | Premier Event: Launch of Seattlenetwork.net Business Club
Dont miss this one time opportunity to invite yourself by RSVP: after the first event attendance will be by invitation only:
this event starts at 5:30 - 8:30 at the top of the Columbia Tower at the corner of 5th and Columbia in downtown Seattle: in the exclusive Columbia Tower Club on the 75th Floor […]
Georgetown
South of Seattle is a small community called Georgetown. Georgetown was incorporated as a city in 1904. Six years later it was annexed to the city of Seattle. In the mid 1800’s, the area was primarily agricultural. Towards the turn of the century as the population of Georgetown increased, industry began to take shape. The […]
SOUTHPARK
South Park lies south of SODO between the Duwamish waterway and Georgetown to the east and east Marginal Way/West Seattle to the west. The Duwamish people were the original inhabitants of the area, using the land to fish, hunt and for agriculture. While Georgetown became industrial, South Park remained mostly agricultural and was home […]
Questions about HUGE assessments By Elizabeth Rhodes
Home Forum
Try to seek compromise when noise annoys
By Elizabeth Rhodes
Seattle Times staff reporter
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Q: During the nine years I’ve owned my Redmond condo, homeowners’ dues and occasional special assessments have been reasonable. Now a new special assessment will effectively triple my housing expense - a real hardship for me.
I feel the homeowners’ association is playing […]
More Condo Information from the Seattle Times
Conference targets condo owners and community associations
By Seattle Times staff
Condominium residents and their counterparts in planned communities are often challenged by homeowners-association issues: how to deal with owners who threaten to sue, how to ensure that enough money is being collected for repairs, how to hire a great manager.
Owners can learn about those topics […]
PIONEER SQUARE
Pioneer square is one of the City’s oldest neighborhoods. It has its early ties to the Yukon Gold Rush and many of the buildings reflect the character of that era. Today it is an eclectic neighborhood of retail and restaurants, housing, and offices. Sited adjacent to downtown and the waterfront, Pioneer square is a […]
LEASING TIPS
Personal Guaranties And How to Avoid or Limit Them – PART TWO
In Part One on this subject we looked at three ways to avoid or limit
personal liability when a landlord asks a tenant for personal guaranties of the tenant
’s compliance with a proposed lease. Those approaches involved trying to
negotiate provisions that (i) eliminate the […]
INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT
Once upon a time this area was called Chinatown, but in an effort to be the most PC city of all, Seattle chose to call it the ID (International District). An effort, lead by local leader Ruby Chow has slowly brought it back to its original name. It is truley International in flavor and […]
What do Bellevue, Redmond and Seattle have in common?
During this century the Puget Sound region’s population is expected to double to over 3.5 million people. We are still enjoying boom-town in this area compared with the rest of the U.S. Between Redmond to the NorthEast, Bellevue to the East and Seattle in the West, there is a combined 60 million square feet […]
