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Everyone is freaking out over San Francisco astronomically high rent prices right now when Seattle real-estate isn’t that far behind. I was walking down the street once in the university district around the University of Washington when I saw construction being built. And then more construction. And then MORE construction down the block. Ridiculous. Looking at a half-torn up flyer, the prices for these new apartments coming out in 2015 were around 1300 per bedroom for a two bedroom apartment ! I quickly went home and started trying to figure out how fast rent was rising in Seattle. One fun way to do this was by working on a project that I have since put off for school back in November. Since reliably the best place to find apartments has been on Craigslist, I created a script using Scrapy to grab listings of apartments on Seattle craigslist and filtered them for the zipcodes within the Seattle boundaries . I manually ran the script for about a week and after filtering out duplicate p...

SOLEA CEDAR PARK - A NEW 55+ APARTMENT HOME COMMUNITY Your Care Free Lifestyle Awaits Cedar Park, TX – Cedar Park’s only 55+ luxury apartment community has recently broken ground at 1520 Juliet Way. Solea will be a resort style, active adult community for adults 55 and older. The first units will be available Fall 2017. Future residents can reserve apartments now. Solea Cedar Park will offer a sense of community with daily resident socials , organized community gatherings , a variety of educational classes, group outings, and an array of community amenities such as walking paths, media room, craft room, computer room, resort-style pool, grilling stations, gym, and a beautiful two story community center . Free weekly fitness classes are also included such as water aerobics, yoga, strength and balance classes. Residents of Solea will be pampered with concierge services, personal fitness coaching , happy hours, and a free resident coffee and wine bar. Controlled access gates , wel...

Damonte Ranch area is a sign of the city's need for housing in Reno, Nev. The recent influx of new workers combined with near-zero residential development during the recession gave birth to a classic supply-and-demand scenario that saw the cost of housing skyrocket in the Biggest Little City. (Andy Barron/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP) Photo: Andy Barron, AP / The Reno Gazette-Journal" class="landscape" /> residential development during the recession gave birth to a classic supply-and-demand scenario that saw the cost of housing skyrocket in the Biggest Little City. (Andy Barron/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP) Photo: Andy Barron, AP / The Reno Gazette-Journal" class="landscape" src="src" /> Damonte Ranch area is a sign of the city's need for housing in Reno, Nev. The recent influx of new workers combined with near-zero residential development during the recession gave birth to a classic supply-and-demand scenario that ...

The Milwaukee Plan Commission in June 2016 held a hearing on the $55 million project, and ended up with a tie vote. Monday’s meeting of the commission, which again had a lengthy public hearing , ended ultimately with a 4- 1 vote endorsing the development. Madison- based Palisade Property Management is seeking city approvals for a 27- story apartment building with 192 apartments atop the Lake Michigan bluff at 1550 N. Prospect Ave. “I believe this is a truly unique site, one of the best in the city, and what we have proposed is the highest and best use of the site,” said Chris Houden, who operates Madison- based Palisade Property . As with last year, Palisade faces opposition from people living in the 1522 On The Lake condo building south of the development site. They came out in full force on Monday, raising concerns about erosion of the Lake Michigan bluff , whether the site plan has enough room for delivery trucks to park off of Prospect Avenue, and access for emergency r...

In a hot downtown apartment market , many developers are asking: Should I sell or refinance? A group led by Chicago developer John Buck recently picked the latter, taking out a $150 million mortgage on Mila, a new 41- story apartment tower near Millennium Park. The move generated a big payday for Buck and its partners, allowing them to pull about $60 million out of the property without selling it. Like homeowners who extract cash from their homes by taking on more debt, developers and landlords can use cash-out financing amid rising property values to pocket big profits . For some developers, it's an especially appealing move because they can borrow so much more against an occupied property than they can against an unbuilt construction project . It also helps that lenders are so high on apartments, offering plenty of choices and good loan terms for landlords. "We're doing a ton of" refinancings, said Danny Kaufman, managing director in the Chicago office of HFF,...

So, you're in your 30s. And, yay, you've got a great job, right here in the nation's capital! But rent is really, really expensive, and you have five roommates. "There is also a cat. There used to be a couple of mice before we got the cat," says a man who asked to be identified by the initials T.R.S. The mice are gone now -- see , cat -- but the situation's still not ideal. For one, T.R.S. thinks the cat is plotting against him. For another, "it would be nice not to wonder if someone came home drunk and maybe accidentally used my toothbrush," he says. "Again." You might be wondering why this well- employed adult doesn 't just move out, to his modest-seeming "ideal situation": a one-bedroom apartment "in a neighborhood where I don't have to shoo passed-out drunks from my front porch or watch my neighbors do drugs on the sidewalk while holding their toddlers." Problem is, "you're either going to pay nearly...

Share this article: Photo by John Schreiber. A skyscraper that would be the tallest residential building in California has been proposed for downtown Los Angeles as the neighborhood’s housing boom rolls on. Crescent Heights , a Miami-based developer, submitted a proposal to the city Planning Department this week to build a 70- story apartment building that would stand out in size and design amid the rapidly growing South Park district east of Staples Center,  the Los Angeles Times reported Friday . The 810-foot building with 794 units would be the third-tallest in Los Angeles behind the recently opened Wilshire Grand hotel and office tower and the U.S. Bank Tower office building completed in 1989. Last year, Crescent Heights completed Ten Thousand , a 40- story luxury apartment complex on Santa Monica Boulevard on the edge of Century City. It also plans to build two residential high-rises next to the Hollywood Palladium on Sunset Boulevard, The Times reported . Its lates...

remaining undeveloped land at Playa Vista" /> For sale: the bulk of remaining undeveloped land at Playa Vista Irvine Company is eyeing the Westside Los Angeles neighborhood of Playa Vista for a sizable apartment development , according to real estate sources . The Newport Beach- based real estate investor and developer is said to be involved with a consortium of developers and homebuilders that’s bidding for a large portion of land now up for sale at Playa Vista, a nearly 1,100- acre neighborhood located near the San Diego (405) and Marina (90) freeways. The land said to be up for sale runs about 100 acres and in total could sell for more than $200 million, according to real estate sources . Irvine Co. is interested in taking over a portion of that land, which could hold roughly 1,500 apartments, sources said. Other developers would handle Playa Vista land that’s expected to hold between 600 and 800 for-sale homes. The consortium Irvine Co. is backing is said to be hea...

Kevin moved into a smaller apartment in a prime location and found himself facing the blank slate of a unit in a new building. A fan of both small spaces and hotel living, he jumped at the opportunity to transform the apartment into a boutique hotel inspired suite of his own. (Image credit: Submitted by Kevin) From Kevin: I moved from 1,000 square feet to 540 to be on the Potomac River in DC's Wharf Development. The new construction offered a blank slate to style into an executive suite . While the building is on the river, the apartment has an interior courtyard view . This meant I needed to style the space in a way that felt like a luxurious hotel suite filled with art and design pieces that make the rooms come to life and offer visual stimulation at all hours of the day. After long walks along the river with my dogs, I wanted to return home and bask in the western exposure sunlight or light up the artwork in the evening to relax and get inspired. I wanted to transform the ...