2016 Mortgage Rate Predictions

One of the most common questions we get asked is “where do you think interest rates are going?” It’s a good question, and hard to answer; most people get it wrong. At the start of 2015, industry analysts were predicting rates around 5%: we ended up...

Apartments Everywhere!

Stroll around any popular neighborhood in the region and you will likely have noticed new multi-family developments.  Or not…they have become so common that many folks don’t even notice them anymore.  More than 10,000 multi-family dwelling units were added...

Highest Number of Micro-Apartments?

Seattle has the highest number of micro-apartments? Wow, but we’re not surprised. Back in November when we were working on a development project with our client, we learned that there were over two dozen micro-apartment projects in the Cap Hill/First Hill/Eastlake...