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Matt Goyer

September 3, 2019

Avenue Bellevue is a twin tower condo project anchored by an Intercontinental Hotel. The developer started by offering 98 luxury units in the south tower for reservation with pricing starting at $1.3m and completion summer 2022. They’ve now released pricing for the 224 residences in the west tower: Studios from $600,000s* One bedroom homes from $700,000s* […]

Matt Goyer

August 28, 2019

Earlier in the year, Nexus, the 389-unit condo building coming to Denny Triangle believed they’d be closing units from November to February but now believes they’ll be closing in Q1 of 2020. Per an email that recently went out: In April, the NEXUS team celebrated the project’s “topping off event” as the building reached its […]

Matt Goyer

June 10, 2019

Spire, the 352-unit new condo building going up at 6th and Wall, has announced that they are 25% pending and are also offering (up to) a $25,000 design credit: As vertical development accelerates in June 2019, SPIRE will soon rise at the rate of one floor per week. Prospective homebuyers are required to make their […]

Matt Goyer

February 23, 2019

If you found my iPhone photos lacking, here are the official photos from the Avenue Bellevue press event last week.

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 […]