urbnlivn, a seattle condo & real estate blog

Tonight I went and saw the opening of Condo Millennium at the North West Film Forum with my Redfin co-worker Kevin who happens to be in the middle of closing on a condo at the Meridian. Judging by the look of the audience I felt like we were the only pro-real estate people there :). [...]

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The excellent Capitol Hill Seattle blog let us know about an interesting performance named Condo Millennium by Marya Sea Kaminski at the North West Film Forum this Thursday through Saturday at 8 pm: Join us for a performance exposition written and directed by Marya Sea Kaminski. Inspired by the transformation of Seattle’s Pike-Pine corridor and [...]

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Washington Multifamily Housing Association’s Education Conference & Exposition is this Wednesday, April 21st at the Meydenbauer Center in downtown Bellevue from 8AM to 4:30PM. Here are the highlights according to their email blast: The latest news on the state of Puget Sound’s rental housing market Tips on multi-family financing by Louis Weisman, Sr. Vice President [...]

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For all you real estate professionals there’s an event coming up for you, the Pacific NW Housing Summit on Thursday, March 18th: The Pacific NW Housing Summit is an opportunity to bring together professionals from all aspects of the real estate industry with the intent to evaluate the current market conditions, forecast the coming years [...]

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For you eco-nerds Built Green is having it’s conference all day March 12th in Bellevue. Sounds like the sessions are only for industry folks (David Orr is the keynote speaker) but the trade floor is open to the public: For the public, the trade floor provides an exceptional opportunity for perspective home buyers to talk [...]

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Attorney Steve Crane of Crane Dunham will be leading a seminar on December 3rd sponsored by the Washington State Bar Association on how buyers can get their condo earnest money deposits back. It’s at the Washington State Convention Center. It’s technically part of a Continuing Legal Education seminar for attorneys, but real estate agents, developers, [...]

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Heads up that another AIA event is coming up soon. This one is a full day conference called Design for Livability:Sustainable Cities on October 16th: Design for Livability brings our region’s planning, design, development and civic leaders together with advocates to better understand what we can do to build a stronger future. Join us to [...]

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Sorry, been on vacation for a week! If you don’t have plans this Sunday check out AIA’s Future Shack event: What does ‘neighborhood character’ mean to you? Why is it important and what is the role of architecture? Join AIA Seattle as our own local characters Steve Scher of KUOW’s “Weekday”, author Knute Berger, activist [...]

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I’ve off to Whistler for the weekend. Before I go though here’s the official post for our Festive Evening on 12th. Everyone’s welcome. Developers, agents, architects, designers, condo buyers, condo renters, bubblers, speculators,… If you’d like to come sign up on the Urbnlivn invite page. Bonus link: Design Within Reach Limited Edition. New item every [...]

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Reminder that the loft tour is tomorrow. Here’s the list of lofts on it. Many on Capitol Hill. There’s also a few other lofts that will be open that you might want to check out: Brix on the north end of Broadway has some loft units. Trace Lofts #308, the first Trace re-sale as well [...]

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