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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”.
PART 1 OF 6 - SOUTHPARK ANOTHER FREMONT? NOT!
WHAT WILL MAKE THE AREAS BETWEEN THE DUWAMISH RIVER AND SR 509ONE OF THE HOTTEST IN SEATTLE BY THE YEAR 2020?JOBS, TRANSPORTATION, HEALTHCARE, HOUSING and QUALITY OF LIFE
- “Take a close look at one of Seattle’s last bastions of blue collar. Today’s Georgetown, South Park or Sodo could be tomorrow’s Fremont”- Paysha Stockton, Seattle […]
BETWEEN THE DUWAMISH RIVER AND SR 509 - SOUTH PARK’S FUTURE
I will be starting a six-art series on why I believe this South Park area to be one of the hottest in Seattle now and into the future. Check out my ideas and send me comments. I look forward to hearing what other people have to say about this best kept secret - South […]
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 […]
What is a Print Broker? by Anna Castle
Just what does a printing broker do? Well, if you have have ever had a large, complex project to have printed and you spent a week learning the printing business, another week getting bids only to discover that the prices for different printers were considerably different for the same job. Now what? Printer #1 […]
COMMERCIAL PROPERTY NEWS NAMES SEATTLE IN TOP 10
“Investors and Corporations seek new spaces despite volatile market”. Those were the headlines in the Nov. 16, 2007 article from Commercial Property News listing Seattle as second only to New York in the “flight to quality” as the reason investors are setting their sights on Seattle’s commercial and industrial properties.
Seattle’s metropolitan area only ranks […]
THE North Beaches of Washington State
Something wonderful is happening to our coastal beach communities. They are being discovered. When my parents first arrived in Seattle in 1944 from Chicago and New Mexico, they wanted to visit the ocean. Of course there was no internet then, but Dad researched the local travel agencies to see where they could get accommodations. […]
