Tom James is a staff writer for CoStar News covering commercial real estate in Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver, British Columbia. He previously covered state politics for the Associated Press in Washington and Oregon. Along with legislative reportin...
Tom James is a staff writer for CoStar News covering commercial real estate in Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver, British Columbia. He previously covered state politics for the Associated Press in Washington and Oregon. Along with legislative reporting, James has covered breaking and general news for Reuters, as well as contributing to the Atlantic magazine, and has reported from Latin America and the Middle East. A University of Washington graduate, he hails from a small town outside Seattle.
The pandemic intensified some preexisting migration trends, including one with a link to multifamily investment: People moving during the worst part of the pandemic were drawn to markets with ...
A high-end condominium project in Seattle is set to open its doors to potential buyers, testing the region’s market for luxury residences after a two-year construction period marked by not only ...
The Seattle multifamily market, long one of the hottest on the West Coast, appears to be cooling, with numerous metrics showing an in-process collision between supply and demand as new construction ...
A Portland, Oregon-based buyer is starting from scratch on plans for a significant development on the shoulder of downtown Seattle, but it still intends to place multifamily units there, a sign of ...
Skanska's start on a multifamily project in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood pays homage to prominent local recording studios that once occupied the property.
Trammell Crow says it has broken ground on a life science tower on the shoulder of Seattle’s South Lake Union tech hub and has a significant tenant already signed.
British Columbia’s second-largest city is restarting an unusual development experiment, with an eye on housing and life science projects in the city center.
With weeks left to go before the end of the quarter, Seattle’s fourth-quarter industrial property sales are already in record territory, posting the strongest quarterly total since the start of the ...
A new construction office project has secured financing in a hip Seattle neighborhood despite signs of lagging demand in the region’s office sector, signaling that at least some office prospects ...
The nation’s largest apartment builder is targeting downtown Portland, Oregon, for a two-block project, the biggest to get underway in that area this year and a bright sign for the city’s urban core, ...
A mixed flex-and-industrial portfolio in Seattle saw its main property triple in value over the course of just a two year hold, a bright sign for the city’s SoDo district and the latest indicator of ...
Hughes McLaughlin traded the waves for the ski slopes when he moved to the Pacific Northwest more than 20 years ago, but the California native and former Cushman & Wakefield senior director still ...
Multifamily sales in the rural eastern half of Washington State experienced a strong third quarter, according to a recent report, which also noted a new openness on the part of sellers to carry ...
Downtown Portland is on track for one of its most significant groundbreakings since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a positive development for the city, which has struggled with pandemic-related ...
A garden-style complex outside of one of Seattle’s top tech clusters was sold this week, securing a price that put it slightly below average in an area that saw several sales approach records earlier ...
Grosvenor, the large London-based real estate investment and development firm, is tapping the head of its Vancouver, Canada, development operations to lead an expansion into another West Coast market.
The family owners of a mountain lodge in Wyoming’s famous Jackson Hole are wagering its unique location will help secure it a price well above market rate in the famous resort community.
The sight became a familiar one in many American cities during the worst months of the pandemic: Once bustling streets were devoid of traffic as fewer people traveled to offices amid government ...