Nov 17, 1999

Reed McClure

Seattle law firm Reed McClure announced that Randy L. Baldemor, Julie M. Florida and Diana S. Shukis have joined the firm as associates. All three were 1998 summer associates at the firm and have recently passed the Washington State Bar exam. Baldemor is involved in the firm's corporate, real estate and litigation practice. Florida will concentrate on business and corporate, and health care law practice groups. Shukis is involved with the litigation, appellate and employment law practices at the firm.

Nov 11, 1999

AASK

The Apartment Association of Seattle and King County has elected John C. Downing, Peggy Ganson, Peter Larsen, Lous Novak Harley O'Neill, Eric P. Smith, Jo Ann Storey, Michael Swanson and Wes Williams to the board of directors. They join returning board members Chris Benis, Cathy Jeney, Paul Birkeland, Doug Neyhardt, Alex Thole, Burt Walls and Ben Wood Jr. Lou Micheli was elected member at large by the board. AASK is the largest association of rental housing owners in the Northwest. It has more than 2,400 members ranging from those with a single house or condo to owners of the largest apartment complexes. Two-thirds of the members own less than 10 rental housing units.

Cain and Scott

Cain and Scott sales agent Paul Kogelmann represented the seller and buyers in the recent $1.2 million sale of the 19-unit Gleneagles Apartments, 1225 N. 178th St., in Shoreline. Charles Scott and family sold the building and Earl and Karen Bradford bought it.

Paragon

Peter Larsen of Paragon Real Estate Advisors in Seattle has been busy in Bothell where he's helped negotiate two sales. He represented Engelstone Family Phase III LLC, which purchased for $3.8 million the 50-unit Forest Lake Apartments, 420 224th St. S.W. And he represented the sellers, Diane Sawyer Apter Meeks and James D. Meeks, in the $7.9 million sale of the 100-unit Willow Glen Apartments, 14701 Juanita/Woodinville Road N.E.

John L. Scott

Kevin Hoover has joined John L. Scott as a sales associate at the Laurelhurst office in Seattle. He previously worked in the men's fashion industry.

Windermere

The staff of Windermere Real Estate's Eastlake office in Seattle has donated $2,466 to Genesis House, a transitional house operated by Ballard First Lutheran Church. The money will go toward the purchase of a new furnace for the agency that provides low-rent housing to families going through tough times. In other news, Diana Casper has rejoined the company as an associate broker in the Sand Point office in Seattle where she began her real estate career 11 years ago. She most recently was with John L. Scott in Lynnwood. Jane Johnson has joined Windermere's Queen Anne office in Seattle as a sales associate. She had been with Fireside Homes in Seattle.

Tegris

Bellevue-based Tegris Corp., a provider of Internet solutions and information technology services to the real estate industry, announced that several leading real estate brokerages and multiple listing services have joined its network. Those firms include Coldwell Banker Bain Associates, John L. Scott Real Estate, Coldwell Banker Success Realty in Phoenix and Fred Sanders Realtors in Los Angeles. Tegris has also entered into co-marketing agreements with these multiple listing services: East Bay Regional Data Systems in Walnut Creek, Calif., RE Infolink in San Jose, MLS in Miami and the Beaches and Greater Indiana Association of Realtors MLS.

Marathon

Marathon, a property management, development and market research firm in Portland, has expanded and fine-tuned its summer 1999 apartment survey of Oregon and Washington counties along the Interstate 5 corridor. The information can be found on the Web site . The charts include information about annualized percentage change in rents, weighted average rents, rent-per-square-foot and discounts as a percentage of rents. Variables include floor plan, quality and size of complex. The company's apartment database contains over 200 fields of information for every apartment complex of 15 or more units. Rental information is updated anonymously twice a year.

Spieker

Standard & Poor's has given Spieker Properties a BBB credit rating, saying the company's financial outlook is stable. The ratings acknowledge Spieker's solid business position, conservative risk profile and good financial flexibility. The one potential drawback for the company is its geographic concentration in the San Francisco Bay area, which lends itself to heavy reliance on the high-technolgy sector and exposes the company to seismic risk. The firm currently has $300 million in earthquake coverage. Menlo Park, Calif.-based Spieker owns, operates and develops suburban office and industrial properties in California, Oregon and Washington.

Onlinevisit.com

Bellevue-based Onlinevisit.com is sporting a new look, with a sleeker, easier-to-navigate Web site, company officials announced. The Web site allows real estate agents to create customized home and neighborhood presentations with text, pictures, audio and video. Consumers can also visit the site to search for homes and agents. Use of the site is free to all agents until Jan. 1, after which they will be required to pay $100 per quarter for up to 35 active home and neighborhood presentations.