Jun 16, 2011

Foster Pepper

Northwest law firm Foster Pepper named Greg Clark chair of the Construction Industry Practice Group. Clark is a construction litigator and spent two decades as a contractor earlier in his career.

NW Protective

NW Protective hired Brian Ditmore as business development manager. Ditmore has 30 years of experience in the building services industry. Since 1940, NW Protective has been providing security services to firms in Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, Yakima and Portland.

Medio Systems

Medio Systems of Seattle, a mobile Internet software and predictive analytics provider, hired Prabuddha Biswas as senior vice president, engineering. Biswas has 25 years of engineering and research experience, and was recently a director at VMware.

University of Idaho

The University of Idaho hired Ronald Smith as vice president for finance and administration. Smith is vice president for finance and business affairs at Seattle University and takes the Idaho post on July 1. Before his tenure in Seattle, Smith was vice president for administrative services at Lewis-Clark College in Lewiston.

Wallace Properties

Bissell

Brad Bissell is a new associate broker at Wallace Properties in Bellevue, specializing in retail leasing and sales.

Colliers International

Casey Gibson is a new associate at Colliers International in Seattle. He specializes in landlord and tenant representation.

Marcus & Millichap

Marc Cunningham of Marcus & Millichap listed a 20-unit apartment project at 212 Harvard Ave. E. in Seattle. The property sold for $3.52 million. An LLC headed by Otto H. Spoerl sold the 1996 property to an LLC managed by Morgro Investments LLC and RGD Property Services Limited. Cunningham also secured and represented the buyer.

Fannie Mae

Fannie Mae expanded incentives to encourage sales of bank-owned REO houses in its HomePath program to owner-occupants. Through Oct. 31, qualified buyers and selling agents can receive financial incentives on sales of properties listed at homepath.com. This is part of Fannie Mae's efforts to stabilize neighborhoods. Buyers must reside in the home as their primary residence. The incentives offer buyers up to 3.5 percent of the final sales price to put toward closing costs. Selling agents representing the buyer receive a $1,200 bonus. The properties include houses, condos and townhouses. The properties may also be eligible for HomePath financing.

Real estate investor seminars

Fairplay Realty is offering hour-long workshops for investors at 5 p.m. Thursdays in its Kirkland office at 205 Lake St. S. Information is at fairplay.com.

Seminar on medical/dental condos

The Seminar Group will hold a day-long seminar on medical and dental condominiums July 15 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. The seminar is for real estate professionals, developers, contractors, lenders and attorneys as well as doctors and dentists. Continuing education credits are available. Program co-chairs are Kerry S. Bucklin of Bucklin Evans Law and Derek J. Doke of Commercial Condos and Colliers Commercial Condominium Real Estate Group. Register at theseminargroup.net, by email at info@theseminargroup.net or call (800) 574-4852.