urbnlivn, a seattle condo & real estate blog

I came across this blog post of someone musing about Condo shopping by email:

My favorite emails are the ones listing Seattle studios. When I considered moving there 3-4 years ago, the cheapest prices were about $300,000 for a tiny (300 sq ft studio). Those are like old Singapore prices of $1,000 a [...]

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There’s been a few good articles on other blogs recently that I just haven’t had time to comment on. Here they are:

PSBJ, Seattle, Bellevue luxury condominium towers are slow to fill up:

County records show just 317 units have recorded closed sales out of the 1,321 offered at these five projects, which is fewer than some [...]

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SeattleScape has had two great posts recently, About those sidewalk closures… and Street life? What street life?
I totally agree. I hate sidewalk closures. 1111 E Pike and that new commercial building on Madison just before the bridge to downtown bug me on a daily basis. I’d also love to see open sidewalks, no more metal [...]

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If you think I’m negative about Seattle condo projects then you better check out, Cheap Shit Condos. They have some choice words about the Braeburn, Montage, Veduta, the Meritage, etc.
I love it!
Unfortunately no word on who runs the site as the domain ownership information is private.
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Hillku a blog written by a friend of mine has featured a couple poems about condos. One references Vertigo and the other two references establishments being torn down to make way for the Pine and Belmont mega-condo. Now I hate to out the author but I do find it interesting he recently moved into some [...]

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Today I spotted a car advertising Funky Lofts realty. Turns out they have a blog Funky Lofts. I like lofts and so I added them to the blog roll over on the right hand side of the site. If there’s any other good Seattle condo blogs I’m missing please let me know.
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Philip Greenspun has an interesting post on energy usage in cities and buildings with tidbits like this one:

In the U.S., residential and commercial space accounts for 40 percent of our primary energy consumption; 38 percent of CO2 emissions are from operating buildings.

He also talks about his desire for smart buildings.
I really do hate going [...]

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I stumbled on this blog sometime in the last three days, Fast Times at 2200 Westlake and it features such gems as Who lives at 2200 Westlake?

So, who lives here at 2200? I’ll give it to you simple. The rich older folks live in the Aria tower. The middle-aged DINKs live in Arte and [...]

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We must be in a condo bubble here in Seattle because there are now at least six blogs focused on downtown condos alone!
UrbanAsh appears to be a Seattle downtown condo blog by a local agent named Ashley.
Nesting 101 appears to be a couple on ‘the elusive search for affordable housing in Seattle.’
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Read about a buyers experience closing on a unit at the Cosmo on the Cosmo Blog.
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