CRE Northwest congratulates Charles Simonyi and his team which include Magnus Christerson Executive Vice President and Hartley Paul Legal Counsel on their merger with Microsoft. Intentional Software, the Bellevue-based startup founded by the Microsoft veteran who oversaw the creation of products including Word and Excel. Charles Simonyi in 2002 left Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) to start … Read more

A once-in-a-lifetime development play is slowly unfolding in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, where the city is getting ready to sell some large properties. Together the mostly vacant properties on Mercer Street and Aurora Avenue North total 2.75 acres and are near some world-renowned institutions and businesses, such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, … Read more

The Puget Sound region’s office market has not yet peaked, but it’s getting closer to doing so, according to a new report. Fueled by robust job growth, especially in the tech sector, new buildings are getting leased up for now, according to the report, which commercial real estate services company JLL (NYSE: JLL) issued Monday. … Read more

Developable land in downtown Seattle is hard to come by, so interest in two sites about to hit the market will likely be high. As part of its $1.6 billion addition, the Washington State Convention Center is working to get the city’s approval to develop a 29-story apartment tower and a 16-story office building, which … Read more

Marc Stiles – Staff WriterPuget Sound Business Journal Amazon and some other tech companies have become so dominant in commercial real estate that there’s now an acronym to describe the phenomenon. “GAFA” stands for Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple. The first three companies are leasing up new buildings in the Puget Sound region, while Apple is expanding … Read more

$202.7M: Sale of One Twelfth @ Twelfth office sets Bellevue record It took only about a month for Bellevue’s office market to set a new price record for the year. The new mark was set this week with the $202.67 sale of One Twelfth @ Twelfth, a three-building campus just off of Interstate 405 on … Read more

Jim Kilroy, Real Estate Developer Renowned as a Yachtsman, Dies at 94 By CHRIS MUSELER Mr. Kilroy, a former aviation executive, applied aerodynamic principles in winning five Maxi Yacht World Championships.

GAMEOVER VIDEO GAMES another successful CRE Northwest client:   CRE Northwest client GameOver Videogames makes the front page of INC Magazine’s website today!  Game Over is one of the fastest growing small businesses in the country with two retail stores up and running here in Washington State – at Northgate Mall and Crossroads Shopping Center … Read more

Congratulations to Dan Ivanoff Reports: Amazon will expand to downtown Bellevue Published: October 6, 2016 The rumor that Amazon is leasing a new office building in downtown Bellevue is true. The Puget Sound Business Journal first reported the news in August, and new reports by two commercial real estate companies – Colliers International and the … Read more