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What Happened to the Olive 8 Auction Winners?
Matt Goyer

Matt Goyer

December 15, 2010

Curious about what happened to the people who won at the Olive 8 auction? Curious about whether all the units closed? Curious if anyone didn’t meet the unpublished minimum price and needed to pay more? I was and spent some time digging through county records to see how things settled out. Since Olive 8 auction […]

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Olive 8 Condo Auction Results – 32 units for $13.3m
Matt Goyer

Matt Goyer

September 19, 2010

This afternoon auctioneer Kennedy Wilson auctioned off 32 units for Olive 8 developer RC Hedreen. We were on location to capture the results in realtime on Twitter and post them all online before anyone else. Had it not been raining I’m sure I would have been biking :). Here are the Olive 8 condo auction […]

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Olive 8 Condo Auction: 34 Units Sept 19th
Matt Goyer

Matt Goyer

August 18, 2010

As rumored earlier this month, it’s now official! Olive 8 developer, RC Hedreen, has retained Kennedy Wilson to auction off 34 units on Sunday September 19th. Kennedy Wilson was also the auctioneer for the 5th and Madison auction. Get the full details at Olive8CondoAuction.com or go here if you don’t want to give them a […]

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Is Living Close to I-5 Bad For Your Health?
Matt Goyer

Matt Goyer

March 25, 2008

A friend and co-worker is looking to relocate back to Capitol Hill. In his quest for Capitol Hill housing he has talked to a number of friends and agents and had not one, but two people recommend that he not live within a half mile of I-5 because of degraded air quality (a half mile […]

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How much are parking spots in Seattle?
Matt Goyer

Matt Goyer

July 16, 2007

The New York Times had a recent article on the price of parking spots, For Parking Space, the Price Is Right at $225,000: For developers in New York, parking is the highest and best use for below-grade space and fetches about the same price per square foot as actual living space, which costs much more […]

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Carbon 56 Review
Matt Goyer

Matt Goyer

March 14, 2007

Our resident interior designer, KH, recently toured Carbon 56. Here are her thoughts: After seeing the marketing boards along Denny for the past few weeks, I decided to check out Carbon 56, (formerly known as Aristo Apartments). It is a conversion project located a block from Whole Foods at 2015 Terry Ave in the Denny […]

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Veer Lofts Floor Plans
Matt Goyer

Matt Goyer

June 19, 2006

Here are the floor plans we received for Veer Lofts: Flat – Unit 615 – 615 sq ft Flat – Unit 306 – 755 sq ft Flexi loft – Unit 413 – 635 sq ft + 316 sq ft Flexi loft – Unit 507 – 610 sq ft + 210 sq ft Full loft – […]

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