by Megan Collier | Jul 27, 2018 | General, Market Updates, Office
While the retail industry continues to see an evolving landscape—with the redevelopment of malls and a flood of store closures, as shoppers increasingly move to ecommerce—it isn’t the only commercial real estate segment to do so. In Seattle, where office vacancy is...
by Megan Collier | Jul 12, 2018 | General, Market Updates
Just over a year ago, in June 2017, the United States pulled out of the Paris Agreement—an international intention to reduce climate change signed by 196 nations. In April of this year, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan drafted the Seattle Climate Action plan to counteract...
by Megan Collier | Jun 15, 2018 | General, Market Updates, Real Estate Technology
Blockchain is the technology behind Bitcoin, a decentralized electronic currency. As stated by the Economist in October, 2015: “The blockchain lets people who have no particular confidence in each other collaborate without having to go through a neutral central...
by Megan Collier | May 23, 2018 | General, Market Updates, Uncategorized
Move Seattle, the $930M levy Seattle voters passed in 2015, originally budgeted around $860K per mile for bicycle infrustructure such as protected lanes. The Seattle Department of Transportation(SDOT) has now doubled that estimate, as stated in a status report to the...
by Megan Collier | May 9, 2018 | General, Market Updates
Millennials (1980-1997, or born as late as 2004, depending on who you ask) now surpass the baby boom generation (1946-1964) in size, 75.4M to 74M. Millennials aren’t that different than Boomers in the actions they take in life, they just tend to take them later, by...
by Megan Collier | Apr 30, 2018 | General, Market Updates
A not-so downtown downtown. “We want the space of suburbia with the amenities of a city, but who can afford that?” wrote Amy Daire for an Insider editorial last year, reviewing popular American neighborhoods. At the beginning of the year, Fortune magazine predicted...
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