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Seattle firms secure $245M construction loan for unique ‘leaning towers’ project on First Hill (Images)
A bridge near the top of the 33-story project will connect the towers that will splay apart from each other.
Six beachfront homes on one Kauai road sold since January
There are currently five homes listed for sale on Weke Road, where Julia Roberts sold a home in 2016 for $16.2 million.
Hawaiian Rent-All auctions inventory to make way for $1M of new equipment
Hawaiian Rent-All, a construction equipment rental store on the corner of South Beretania and McCully known for its sometimes-controversial message board, is auctioning its older inventory to make way for new equipment.
The online auction is intended to make way for about $1 million of new equipment, according to Nathan Ho, who has owned the company since 2016.
“I want to fulfill and expand on the long-led legacy that the original founders left behind”, says Oh. “We have a massive upgrade…
Patti Payne’s Cool Pads: Drs. David and Pilin Chang list their stunning waterfront mansion for $9 million (Photos)
The Northwest is filled with Craftsman-style homes built of natural materials like wood, river rock and stone – hundreds of them in our area.
But the waterfront mansion belonging to Dr. David Chang and his wife, Dr. Pilin Chang, has taken Craftsman to a whole new level.
He is a founder and principal of Bellevue Spine Specialist; she is a retired pediatrician.
Their imposing Bellevue estate, with its 110 feet of west-facing waterfront, is listed for $8.989 million. Brokers Tere Foster and Moya…
9Neighborhoods: This Colorado town is just one square mile (but has its own private lake)
This Colorado town may be tiny – it’s just one square mile and has about 900 residents – but it's got a friendly, rural feel that is one of many reasons why the residents who move there tend to stay put.
Bow Mar is about 12 miles southwest of Denver and consists of single-family homes on acre-lots, a private lake — and lots of open space (and the views that come with it) in between.
Many of Bow Mar's residents are second- or third-generation families (95 percent of whom own their homes)…
Zillow plans to start flipping houses
Zillow, the parent company of real estate-listing websites include Zillow, Trulia, StreetEasy and HotPads, said beginning this spring it would become an investor in the Phoenix and Las Vegas property markets and work with agents to purchase homes directly from homeowners.
Peek inside this Aspen luxury estate priced at $12.9 million (PHOTOS)
A luxury estate minutes from downtown Aspen has just hit the market for $12.9 million.
Listed by Coldwell Banker Mason Morse Real Estate, the property encompasses six acres of backcountry with stunning views. While the 6,786-square-foot home was originally built in 1994, it has just undergone a massive “down-to-the-studs” remodeling by broker-developer Bob Bowden, who represents the seller.
“This exceptional property has been reimagined to reflect the modern Aspen lifestyle with grand designs,”…
John Kerry, Teresa Heinz sell waterfront Nantucket home for $17.5M
A sprawling waterfront property on Nantucket that was long owned by former Secretary of State John Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, has sold for $17.5 million.
A Nantucket deed lists the purchaser as 5 Hulbert Avenue LLC, which is registered to Nantucket law firm Vaughan, Dale, Hunter and Beaudette.
Kerry and Heinz originally asked $25 million for the property in mid-2016, the Boston Globe reported at the time. The Inquirer and Mirror of Nantucket first reported news of the $17.5 million…
Single-family homes converting to rentals faster than apartments in Denver and Aurora
Metro Denver has seen a large number of homes convert to rental properties since the housing downturn last decade. The picture above is of a rental home in Washington Park.Denver and Aurora have relied heavily on apartment construction to house their growing populations, but they have also seen a surge in single-family homes converted to rentals since 2007, according to a new study.
RentCafe, an apartment search engine, counted 27,300 new apartments and 11,000 new single-family home rentals in Denver between 2007 and 2016. That works out to a 37 percent increase in single-family homes for rent, primarily from conversions, and a 35 percent gain in apartments, primarily from new construction.
In Aurora, the number of apartments rose by 7,700, or 25 percent, while the number of single-family home rentals shot up by 4,500, or 38 percent.
That pattern in Aurora and Denver is playing out differently than the one seen nationally, where the stock of single-family rentals rose by 31 percent,..
Century III Mall faces Sheriff’s sale from dispute over former Sears store
Stores remain open at Century III Mall despite upcoming Sheriff's sale.