urbnlivn, a seattle condo & real estate blog

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 prospects [...]

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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 to [...]

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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 [...]

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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 tackle [...]

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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, [...]

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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 day. [...]

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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 as unoccupied [...]

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A whole bunch of agents have banded together to open up their loft listings from 1 to 4 p.m. this Sunday in order to put together a loft tour.
Here they are:
Central Corner Condominiums
1117 E Denny Way #A
1310 E Union
1310 E Union St #202
19th Ave Lofts
1812 19th Ave #206
Madison Lofts
2914 E Madison St #210

Belmont Lofts
231 [...]

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Redfin, Zillow, Pb Elemental have all announced layoffs this week.
I hear others like Weber Thompson have also been letting go staff.
This does definitely not bode well for our local condo economy. Who else has been affected that we haven’t heard from?
Sad to say, it’s definitely time for an Urbnlivn meetup, we’re at least a year [...]

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With the Dow below 9,000 we all need a place to go to forget our worries. So check out Escala’s Club Cielo at their open house this weekend, Saturday & Sunday, October 11th & 12th from 11:00am to 6:00pm daily.

Club Cielo will be an exclusive enclave on the entire second level of Escala with [...]

Popularity: 8% [?]

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