Aug 26, 1998

Mortgage Markets

Melissa Weber, Judy Chapman and Christopher Yanke have been named mortgage markets at Mortgage Market's Northgate branch office. They will be responsible for originating and closing home loans for clientele throughout the Seattle metropolitan area.

Aug 24, 1998

LandAmerica Financial Group Inc.

LandAmerica Financial Group Inc. has appointed Peter H. Ostrander vice president of sales for the company's national commercial services division in Seattle. Ostrander formerly served as vice president/commercial sales manager for Transnation Title Insurance Company's King and Snohomish county operations.

Aug 21, 1998

Bentall Corp.

Bentall Corp. of Vancouver, B.C., has announced the appointments of Dick Clofelter and Claude Legault to its Board of Directors. Clotfelter retired in April after a 36-year commercial real estate career that included a high-profile stint in Seattle. He founded and led Prescott, a Seattle development company from 1977 to 1993 and built such landmarks as Century Square and Bentall's U.S. Bank Centre. Clotfelter worked for CB Richard Ellis (formerly CB Commercial) where he was president of CB Commerical Capital Markets Advisory, Appraisal and Management Services, and president, chairman and CEO of Westmark Realty Advisors. Legault is president and CEO of SITQ Immobilier, a major Bentall shareholder. He helped found SITQ in 1984 and had been a member of its Board of Directors for many years. He also is deputy chairman of the board of the Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec and a director of the Caisse Real Estate Group and of the Services Financiers CDPQ. Betsy Sutherland has been promoted to vice president, regional manager for Bentall's Property Management Division. Sutherland has 15 years of property management experience, leasing and construction management. Before joining Bentall, she was vice president of property managment for CB Richard Ellis, senior property manager for Prescott and property manager for Rubloff in Atlanta.

Windermere

Larry R. Palmer has joined the Eastlake office of Windermere Real Estate as a sales associate. Palmer had worked for five years as director of finance for Elder-Health NW. He also served as executive director of Chicken Soup Brigade, a community-based AIDS services organization. He is actively involved in the Pride Foundation and the Cal Anderson Park Committee.

HSC wins two management contracts

HSC Real Estate Inc., of Seattle, has won the contracts to manage the 233-unit Elliott Bay Plaza Apartments, 2400 Elliott Ave., and the 173-unit Tower 801 at 801 Pine St. The Ohio Teachers' Retirement System owns Elliott Bay Plaza Apartments and Alper Northwest owns Tower 801. HSC manages 10,000 units in the Puget Sound area and has a total portfolio of 15,000 units in Washington, Oregon, California and Nevada.

Colliers International

Denis F. Mehigan has joined Colliers Internatioinal as director of the firm's Corporate Services Group, which is headquartered in Seattle. Mehigan has 18 years of corporate real estate experience having worked for Pacific Bell, Southern Pacific Financing, Blockbuster Video, Clorox and others.

Aug 20, 1998

Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson

Gregory J. Duff has joined the Seattle law firm of Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson as an associate. Duff will emphasize business and real estate law, with a focus on hospitality industry law.

Betts, Patterson & Mines

Bradley J. Rorem has joined Betts, Patterson & Mines as an associate in the commercial litigation and real estate practice areas.