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Now Renting: Lumen Unit for $3,100/mo

October 6th, 2011 by katrina · No Comments · Lumen

That beautiful unit at Lumen that was listed in July for $650K appears to have been recently delisted and is now being offered for rent. The 2bd/2b unit is asking $3,100/mo unfurnished, $3,500/mo furnished. As we discovered when we posted about it this summer, this unit was profiled in the Seattle Times in 2008. Tweet

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Lumen Unit Works Its White Space

July 19th, 2011 by katrina · 5 Comments · Lumen

What’s all that white space called again? Oh yeah, negative space. And there’s a fair amount of it to work with in this Lumen listing. It’s not all negative (space) though… Just listed for $650K, this unit is described as two homes combined into a single residence which includes 2-bedrooms, 2 baths, open living room, [...]

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Interesting Sales Last Week

May 23rd, 2011 by katrina · 1 Comment · 200 West Highland, Enso, Gallery, Hjarta, Lumen, Olive 8, Recent Sales, Trace North

There were 27 closed sales in Seattle’s condo and townhouse market last week. After last week’s round-up of new construction condo inventory, it seems that the following units moved from the ‘pending’ column to the ‘sold’ column: Trace North #320 and #420 – both 1-bedroom condos that closed for $425/sf and $417/sf respectively. Enso #505 [...]

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Reader Fails to Buy at Lumen

July 30th, 2010 by Matt · 1 Comment · Lumen

An Urbnlivn reader wrote in about their experience buying at Lumen in June: It was a bad first-time buying experience all around … with the discount brokerage, with the lender, with the listing agent, and with the REO owner. Ultimately the purchase was doomed by a high HOA dues delinquency rate due to which it [...]

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Lumen “Penthouse” Sells For Asking

February 16th, 2010 by Matt · 3 Comments · Lumen

That crazy Lumen penthouse that you, our readers, pegged at $675k sold for it’s asking price of $949k last week. I never would have guessed that! Tweet

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Lumen Penthouse Finally Done

October 24th, 2009 by Matt · 9 Comments · Lumen

After years of construction the Lumen penthouse is finally complete. Surely there’s a story behind this unit. Was it built for the developer who bailed on it when things went sideways? After a $500K build-out, the LUMEN penthouse is complete. It is unlike anything available in Seattle Metro. Two units have been combined creating a [...]

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Lumen Press Release on Auction

July 13th, 2009 by Matt · 3 Comments · Lumen

Thought some folks would be interested to see some of the numbers in their press release. 80 registered buyers, 1,200 people toured, many cash buyers. – SEATTLE – Sixteen winning bidders earned great value this past Saturday when the remaining available condominium homes at the LUMEN development at Seattle Center in downtown Seattle were sold [...]

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Lumen Auction Results + Video – All Sold Except 1

July 11th, 2009 by Matt · 11 Comments · Lumen

I’m about to pass out since I just biked 204 miles from Seattle to Portland but just had to post about the Lumen auction results before crashing… A reader and Chelsea (who accompanied a Redfin client) sent me the results for the Lumen Auction [pdf] which I combined into one spreadsheet: The reader, “potus” says: [...]

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Lumen Auction Results?

July 11th, 2009 by Matt · 2 Comments · Lumen

How’d the Lumen auction go? Sadly I couldn’t make it because I’m biking from Seattle to Portland (you can follow along on my Twitter. Tweet

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Lumen Remodel – Before & After Photos

July 10th, 2009 by Matt · 4 Comments · Lumen

On the eve of the Lumen auction I received some photos for a reader who lives at Lumen showing their before and after that are a great inspiration to anyone bidding tomorrow. A couple things about what we did that are of note: 1) We donated the original Lumen kitchen to charity and recieved a [...]

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