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A very nice looking penthouse loft came on the market at 81 Vine, unit #504.

$599k for 923 square feet. Last sold in November 06 for $550k.
(Update posted via satellite Internet at Bahia de la Luna in the south of Mexico. I won’t be posting much but have some scheduled posts to come out [...]

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Last week I blogged about the Alex getting renamed Volta and yesterday I got a hard hat tour of the Belltown project just as the scaffolding came down and as two units, #101 and #602 hit the MLS. They’re expected to put two more units on the MLS shortly to give folks a sense of [...]

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I love this two-level modern listing just next to the Redfin offices at Market Place Tower North. It’s unit #E18 and is listed at $1,495m for 1,919 square feet:

The unit has very similar views to my office. I love watching the ferries come and go, the cargo container ships and the police/coast guard are always [...]

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Alchemy Real Estate has taken over the sales for the Alex from Maureen Khan of CBB. The project name has also changed to VOLTA. You can find out more about the 34 unit building that was supposed to complete in the fall of ‘08 at http://www.voltaonbell.com/. I hear from Alchemy that they intend to release [...]

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Pike Lofts
First up is unit #512 at 303 Pike St which is a nicely upgraded unit at the Pike Lofts.

Priced at $349k for a 1 bed 796 square foot unit. If you like Pike Lofts and want a large outdoor patio check out unit #309 that just came on the market at $328k [...]

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Bunch of new listings caught my eye today.
First up are five townhomes on Capitol Hill at 215 24th Ave E (near 24th and Madison) designed by Pb. Pricing is:

Unit A, $419,950 Sold Pending, Unit B, $369,950 2 br 2 bth, Unit C, $369,950 2 br 2 bth, Unit D, $367,000 2 Br 2 Bth, Unit [...]

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Seems like the flood gates have opened on interesting listings.
First up is a live/work unit at the Klee. My friend Ming bought the live/work unit that last came on the market there a year or so ago. I definitely like the live/work units at the Klee more so than the rest of the units. Must [...]

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Years later, Mosler Loft owners are still caught between JE Dunn and the Schuster Group and a $6.7 $2.7 million lien. To shed some light on the problem the owners have started a new public blog, Mosler Lofts Lien.

There is still the lien between JE Dunn and The Schuster Group/Belltown Developing Partners and Chicago [...]

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There’s been a lot of new listings hitting the market the last few weeks but not much has caught my eye. However, this past week two lofts popped up in Belltown that caught my eye.
The first, a ground floor loft at Mosler. It’s a 1 bed/1.5 bath, 1,500 square feet. Originally sold as new [...]

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I have no plans to get off my butt, though if you are in the market for a Belltown condo there is a huge open house tour today. Here’s a map of all the participating units.
Overall there are 163 open houses going on according to the MLS via Redfin. Including the Firehouse unit I blogged [...]

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