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Matt Goyer

February 21, 2019

Here’s our look at the soon-to-open sales center for Avenue Bellevue, a 98-unit luxury condo project that sits atop a 252-room Intercontinental Hotel with 85,000 square feet of retail (including a restaurant by a 3-star Michelin chef) on a 3-acre site at NE 8th Street and Bellevue Way. Before we got a good look at […]

Matt Goyer

January 25, 2019

First Light, the 459-unit condo coming to 3rd and Virginia has announced they’re over 50% pending, and have yet to break ground! Definitely impressive sales momentum in this market for the most expensive condo. Unlike other projects, we hear that First Light has multiple sales teams. As you expect, they have a team in Seattle, […]

Matt Goyer

November 24, 2018

The First Light sales center finally opened this past week and we got a peek inside with one of our clients last Wednesday. The “First Light Pavilion” is made up of a sales pavilion and a gallery. The gallery has models of other West Bank projects, some videos, a sample of the landscaping for the […]

Matt Goyer

October 25, 2018

On Tuesday First Light held an event at the Cinerama for Seattle’s top brokers. The place was full, we ended up in the back row! Word is that over 500 agents attended treated to First Light branded popcorn and sandwiches from Dahlia. Surprisingly the presentation was light on content on First Light but served as […]

Matt Goyer

October 18, 2018

Here’s a head-to-head comparison of the high-rise condo buildings coming to Seattle. Keep in mind that a chart like this does a good comparing the high level points, it misses a lot of the nuance around what might be the right building for you, so feel free to reach out to use directly (hello@urbnlivn.com) if […]

Matt Goyer

October 16, 2018

First Light, the new condo tower going up at 3rd and Virginia has just released a whole bunch of renderings and photos of their model building. Enjoy! NOTICE: The author is not a representative of the owner, Virginia Street Joint Venture LLC, or their affiliates.

Matt Goyer

October 6, 2018

Spire, the 352-unit condo building coming to 600 Wall has released some details by posting a number of units to the MLS late Friday night. We must have been dropped from the Realogics press release email list as it looks like Spire had a reservation event today. Though I can’t find mention of it anywhere, […]

Matt Goyer

September 28, 2018

Over the past two weeks a Vancouver-based developer, Westbank, flew 40 Seattle real estate agents to Vancouver to meet and learn about them, as Westbank is soon going to be entering the Seattle market in a big way with three projects (one condo, two apartments). Their first condo here, First Light, is a 459-unit high […]

Matt Goyer

August 24, 2018

Spire, the 354-unit condo building coming to 600 Wall St has announced that they’ll start pre-sales this fall and they’ve released initial pricing: Urban One Bedrooms and One Bedrooms (531-776 Sq. Ft.) from the mid-$400,000s to $800,000 plus One Bedrooms (671-776 Sq. Ft.) from the $600,000’s to $1 million plus* One Bedroom, One Bedroom plus Den and […]

Matt Goyer

April 13, 2018

After months of hearing that Hendon will start sales “next week”, next week is finally here! Hendon is a 32-unit condo building on Phinney Ridge at 300 N 68th St that has released three units for sale: #102 – $499,000 for a 569 square foot studio #103 – $485,000 for a 569 square foot studio […]

Matt Goyer

January 11, 2018

This afternoon, real estate agents packed in to get their first look at the One88 sales center. One88 is the 143-unit condo building going up in Bellevue at 188 Bellevue Way NE, the first condo to be built in Bellevue in something like 10 years. The big news is that the cheapest, smallest unit, a […]

Matt Goyer

October 5, 2017

Perkins Lane, home to multi-million dollar waterfront view properties, is also home to a number of vacant lots (and a treehouse) that look great online. So great that I’ve had numerous requests from buyers about the opportunity to buy a third of an acre on water in Magnolia for only $125k or to buy a […]