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Matt Goyer

May 16, 2012

I’ve been too busy skiing to even hear about Fifty Shades of Grey, never mind read it! But I spotted on the Zillow Blog today that Escala was the setting for it, Seattle’s Escala Condo Building Set Steamy Scenes for “Fifty Shades of Grey”. Between Tim Lincecum and this, Escala becoming a star studded building. […]

Matt Goyer

April 14, 2012

On Thursday I swung by the open house for unit 1b at the Union Arts Co-Op. Wow! That place is incredible. First off, yes, the HOAs are high, but since it is a co-op they include the property tax. Second, this place is neat! You enter from the back, there is no way into the […]

Urban Living regularly receives a high amount of traffic on an old 2008 post about live/work lofts for sale in Seattle. Recent comments suggest that some of that traffic is artists looking for affordable live/work lofts where they can practice their craft. And boy is that old post not helping :). Urban Living is mostly […]

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 Curious if anyone didn’t meet the unpublished minimum price and needed to pay more?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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 – […]