Apr 21, 2005

Avant Real Estate

Cortel

Jolene Cortel is the new managing broker of Avant Real Estate's Tacoma office. Charles B. Hamilton and Andrea Austin have joined Avant, a residential real estate company.

CoStar Group Inc.

CoStar, an international provider of commercial real estate industry data, has recognized the Puget Sound region's top producers with its Power Broker Awards.

Top 10 sales brokers are Michael Allmon, Real Estate Advisory Partners; Frank Bosl, CB Richard Ellis; Kenny Dudunakis, Hendricks & Partners; Jon Hallgrimson, CB; Tim O'Keefe, CB; Bill Pollard, Pacific Real Estate Partners (PREP); Dave Schumacher, Columbia Partners; Paul Sleeth, Colliers International; Theresa Verretto, Real Estate Advisory Partners; and David Young, Hendricks & Partners.

The top 10 sales firms are CB Richard Ellis, Colliers, Columbia Partners, GVA Kidder Mathews, Hendricks & Partners, Marcus & Millichap, PREP, Paragon Real Estate Advisors, Real Estate Advisory Partners and Westlake Associates.

The Top 20 leasing companies are Broderick Group, CB Richard Ellis, Colliers, Corporate Real Estate, Cushman & Wakefield, Ewing & Clark, Flinn Ferguson, Grubb & Ellis, GVA Kidder Mathews, Morris Piha Real Estate Services, Neil Walter Co., PREP, Puget Sound Properties, Rosen-Harbottle, The Andover Co., The Staubach Co., Trammell Crow Co., Turbak Commercial Real Estate Services, Urbis Partners and Washington Partners.

The top 20 office leasing brokers are John Black, Broderick Group; Ed Curtis, Washington Partners; Kip Durrell, PREP; Parker Ferguson and Dan Flinn, both of Flinn Ferguson; Jason Furr, Broderick; Doug Hanafin, Washington Partners; Ed Hogan, CB; Jeff Jochums, Colliers, Todd McAuley, Flinn Ferguson; David Milloy, Trammell Crow Co.; Clay Nielsen, Washington Partners; Tim O'Keefe and Jesse Ottele, both of CB; Geoff Pendergast, CB; Patrick Pendergast, Washington Partners; Steve Schwartz, PREP; JJ Shephard, PREP; Paul Sweeney, Broderick; and Stuart Williams, PREP.

The top 20 industrial brokers are Scott Carter, PREP; Scott Alan, Colliers; David Baumer, Andover; Les Boudwin, PREP; Nick Cassino, Trammell Crow; Todd Clarke, GVA Kidder Mathews; Monte Decker, CB; Mark Flippo, PREP; John Gilliland, CB; John Hanson, Trammell Crow; Steve Henderson, Broderick; Chris Hughes, PREP; Paul Jerue and Chris Langer, both of Broderick; Todd Meldahl, Scott Price and Mike Roy, all of Trammell Crow; John Sullivan, CB; Wilma Warshak, Colliers; and Matt Wood, GVA Kidder Mathews.

Windermere

Michael Boss has joined Windermere Real Estate's Property Management-Seattle office. He had been a senior property manager with Seavest Realty in Seattle for seven years. Karla Hulse is a new sales agent at the Queen Anne office.

Sabey Corp.

Employees of Sabey Corp., worked with fourth-graders in Tukwila on the Salmon in the Classroom, a state salmon release program. Students watched salmon eggs hatch and grow into fry in their classroom fish tanks before releasing 150 fry into Riverton Creek. Sabey employees have worked on the program for six years.

John L. Scott

Heather Burgin and Cathie Freed are new agents at the Kirkland office of John L. Scott Real Estate. Other new agents are Rick Martin, Bellevue South; Ken Weimer, Bellevue; Larry McIntosh, Bellevue Downtown; Daphne Donovan, Mercer Island; Shane Saiyan, Redmond; and Huyen Hansche, Kent.

CREW

CREW Seattle will present a class on design-build project delivery at 4 p.m. May 5 in Seattle at Sellen Construction, 227 Westlake Ave. N. The 90-minute program will be followed by an hour of networking at Vulcan Inc.'s new South Lake Union Discovery Center. Panelists for the class include Jeffrey D. Sharp of Vulcan and Eric Smith of University of Washington; contractors Greg Bogard of Howard S. Wright Construction Co., Jim Karambelas of GLY Construction, David Mortenson of M.A. Mortenson Co., Scott Bastiani of Sellen; and architects Arlan Collins of CollinsWoerman, Donald I. King of DKA and Cynthia Faw of Callison. It's $25 for members of Commercial Real Estate Women and $35 for nonmembers and walk-ins. Register by May 2 by calling (206) 417-5580.

Apr 14, 2005

Cushman & Wakefield

Eshelman

Scott Eshelman, the former director of real estate marketing and leasing for Vulcan Inc., has rejoined Cushman & Wakefield in Seattle, this time as senior director of the company's new Capital Markets Investment Sales Division. He is focusing on investment sales and financing of commercial office properties in the Puget Sound region. He has worked as president of Lariat Software in Seattle, and as a senior sales and leasing associate at Cushman & Wakefield.

Harbor Properties

Orser

Steve Orser is working at Harbor Properties of Seattle. He's responsible for securing urban properties and coordinating development. Orser previously worked at Bellevue-based Quadrant Corp., where he helped develop the Redmond Ridge master-planned community and worked on regional property acquisitions. He also worked as a consultant at CB Commercial Real Estate Group in Washington, D.C., and Legg Mason Realty Group in Baltimore.

Wallace Properties

Doud

David Doud has joined Wallace Properties of Bellevue as an investment sales specialist focusing on retail. Doud, who ran for the state House last year, has worked for Unisys, the Berlin Parliament in Germany, and the Internal Relations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. Most recently was president of a Seattle-area financial services company.

Shea Homes

John Adams has joined Shea Homes as Northwest regional director of acquisitions and community development. Adams was with Port Blakely Communities, where he managed development of several large projects, including the 500-unit Woodside residential development east of Renton and portions of Issaquah Highlands. Shea Homes is the builder of Trilogy at Redmond Ridge. Adams managed preliminary development at Trilogy before its sale to Quadrant in 1998. Shea Homes says it's the nation's largest privately held home builder.

Hendricks & Partners

Kenny Dudunakis of the Seattle office of Hendricks & Partners negotiated the $24.25 million sale of The Colony/Mirror Woods, a 335-unit apartment property in Federal Way. CVI Mirror Colony LLC and Mirror Colony Apartments LLC of Los Angeles sold to VIF/CPP Colony LLC and VIF/CPP Mirror Woods LLC of Carlsbad, Calif.

L.J. Melody

L.J. Melody & Co., the real estate investment banking division of CB Richard Ellis, has arranged $13 million in financing for the Northpointe Office Building and the adjacent 24-Hour Fitness in Spokane. The 5-year-old office building is 97,000 square feet. David Stinebaugh of L.J. Melody's Seattle office secured the funding. Bear Stearns provided financing on behalf of Northpointe Office Building LLC and Vandervert Development.

John L. Scott

Two trade publications, REAL Trends and National Relocation and Real Estate Magazine, both have ranked John L. Scott Real Estate the eighth most productive independent real estate company in the country. The publications use sales data and other criteria to rank companies. Last year, Scott agents closed more than 56,000 transactions worth more than $13 billion, making 2004 the most successful in the company's 74 years.