A recent spate of articles dealing with the commercial real estate health of Bellevue shines a light away from Seattle commercial real estate. The big deal a few yearsRead more

Several articles of interest appeared in the weekly Puget Sound Business Journal impacting Seattle commercial real estate. The first one that jumped out in the August 17th edition wasRead more

The Greater Seattle economy is closely tied to world trade. Any native from this area who goes back historically clearly remembers the cycles of boom and bust tied toRead more

As the professionals of Seattle Commercial Real Estate LLC started predicting a couple of years ago, mixed use rents have stabilized, fallen slightly and vacancies in our market areRead more

The socialist-oriented Seattle City Council passed a “Head Tax” to fund homeless services. It was reduced from a proposed $500 per employee, to only $275 per employee, and thenRead more

In a recent article, the Puget Sound Business Journal devoted an entire section to corporate citizenship. The theme devolved around “corporate social responsibility,” which incorporates environmental issues, donations ofRead more

The City of Seattle Head Tax is intended to help solve the homeless problem. In previous articles we discussed the impact of governmental attempts to solve this issue, andRead more

The ultraliberal Seattle City Council, adverse to the wishes of the liberal Seattle Times and the business community in general, passed a dumbed down version of the so calledRead more

In a recent article we discussed the demand for industrial property close to the Central Business District of downtown Seattle.  This premise was never made more clear than whenRead more

The joke in Seattle is that the crane is the new symbol of Seattle. We don’t mean Crane the Bird, but construction cranes. Seattle still leads the nation withRead more