Real Estate Blog

A waterfront home on Davis Islands that hit the market nearly two years ago has been sold for $6.2 million.

A buyer closed on the 7,289-square-foot home at 88 Martinique Ave. on Friday. It is the second highest priced home to sell in Hillsborough County this year; the top sales price was the Casper family's $9.5 million acquisition of the Stovall-Lee estate on Bayshore Boulevard.

Julie Mullen Lux, an agent with Smith & Associates Real Estate in Tampa, was the listing agent on the property. Jennifer…

For the electrical industry, creating today’s modern, technologically advanced buildings means a variety of specialized work happens behind the scenes. This work begins months before the construction crew even starts.

An example is the work electrical contractor OEG, a NECA/IBEW Local 48 member, did on the Oregon Health & Science University’s South Waterfront Campus expansion.

Construction on the Center for Health & Healing south tower and the Rood Family Pavilion began in 2016, but as part…

It took two and a half months and $2 million to drain 9 million gallons of water and remove 5-6 tons of sludge from the basement of the Railway Exchange Building after a water main break last year.

CoverMyMeds took a step closer to building a corporate campus and bringing 1,600 tech jobs to west Franklinton under a tax-sharing deal Columbus City Schools approved on Friday.

The district would collect $9.5 million to $20 million over 15 years in lieu of property taxes.

The health IT company, a subsidiary of McKesson Corp., projects having a total of 1,624 employees after two buildings of 200,000 square feet each are completed by 2024 for a total of $225 million.

The site is in the 800 block…

Circa 1905 building that neighbors the Broadway Market hits the market.

Kevin Westenberg’s career in photography is the stuff that movies are made of. In fact, there is already a movie being made of his life, and parts of it have already been filmed at the family home on the shores of Lake Washington, in the Mt. Baker/Leschi area.

Now, Westenberg has put that home on the market for $2.85 million. Windermere broker Marilyn Smith, who is Westenberg's friend, has the listing.

“Kevin and I have been close friends since college,” said Smith. ”I’ve spent many…

San Jose's City Council just rejected so-called “commercial linkage fees.” Enacting such fees — which are charged to new commercial developments — is “overdue” and would substantially boost below market-rate housing in San Jose, Campbell, Milpitas, Los Gatos and Los Altos, the grand jury said.

Developer City Ventures recently launched sales at two new West Oakland townhouse developments, Ice House and Station House South, with some homes available for move-in starting in October.

Over the last month, City Ventures has sold nine townhouses at the 47-unit Station House South site, located at 14th Street and Frontage Road. Prices range from the mid-$700,000s to mid-$800,000s, and the homes are between 1,670 to 1,900 square feet with two to three bedrooms.

Sales at the 950 West Grand…

In January, San Jose and Santa Clara settled contentious lawsuits that pitted the neighboring cities against each over development plans. That’s the good news. The bad news is that this kind of dispute can erupt much too easily among Silicon Valley cities, and it’s going to take foresight to ensure this doesn’t happen again.

The latest fight was over two projects — CityPlace in Santa Clara and Santana West in San Jose — and wasn’t anything new. Back when I worked at the San Jose Redevelopment…

The owner/developer of the project has dropped his prior plans to build an office building on the same site.