Oct 22, 2009

Rental Housing Association

Banner Bank and Banner Bank Assistant Vice President/Income Property Lender Todd Hull were nominated Associate Member of the Year by the Rental Housing Association of Puget Sound. Hull works in Banner Bank's Bellevue Corporate Real Estate Loan Center. With more than 4,000 members, RHA of Puget Sound is the largest association of rental housing owners in Washington state.

Opus Northwest

Opus Northwest said Fifteen Twenty-One Second Avenue condominium in downtown Seattle received top honors at the Multifamily Executive Awards Gala in Las Vegas. The tower was named Project of the Year in the High-Rise category for design, floor plan efficiency, creative use of materials, landscaping, financing and working with government and community officials. The 143-unit project was designed by Weber Thompson and Opus Architects & Engineers, the architect of record. Realogics is handling marketing and sales. Opus NW Contractors was construction manager.

Seattle Mortgage Bankers Association

Matt Griffin will be the speaker at the Nov. 18 meeting of the Seattle Mortgage Bankers Association at the Washington Athletic Club, 1325 Sixth Ave. Griffin is managing partner of Pine Street Group. The event starts at 11:30 a.m. with registration. Cost is $45 for members. For information contact scory@ortc.com or go to http://www.seattlemba.org.

Paragon Real Estate Advisors

Paragon Real Estate Advisors reported the sale of a 32-unit apartment building at 20120 Whitman Ave. N. in Shoreline for $4.2 million. Saint Newton represented the seller and John Stoner represented the buyer, according to Paragon.

Keller Williams Realty

Linda M. Lowry, a real estate sales professional in Seattle, has joined the Keller Williams Realty Seattle Metro West Market Center. She worked in corporate sales and marketing. The office is at 4452 California Ave. S.W. and has more than 70 associates.

Olympic Northwest Mortgage

Silverdale-based Olympic Northwest Mortgage has started the transition to become Network Mortgage Services. Walt Bailey is branch manager for Network Mortgage and principal with Olympic Northwest. In a press release, Bailey said in late 2008 he and business partner Kay Arnold saw that regulatory changes caused by the national mortgage meltdown were going to make it extremely difficult to continue to operate as usual. Olympic Northwest became a division of Network Mortgage in April. Bailey says the percentage of loans originated by mortgage brokers has dropped from nearly 80 percent a few years ago to less than 20 percent today. Network Mortgage originates loans in multiple states through a retail loan center, six branch offices, and a wholesale lending channel.

Oct 15, 2009

Grubb & Ellis

Grubb & Ellis said Richard Wieneke joined the company as senior vice president, Investment Group. Wieneke will specialize in the sale and acquisition of distressed assets. Wieneke spent the majority of his career at Kennedy Associates Real Estate Counsel and also spent five years at Opus Northwest. Most recently he was owner of the development firm TNR LLC.

Coast|Sperry Van Ness

Sperry Van Ness International, a national real estate firm affiliated with Coast|Sperry Van Ness of Everett, awarded Josh Jansen the Market Dominator Award as one of the top five commercial real estate advisors in the United States. Coast|Sperry Van Ness said its Jansen Multifamily Team arranged sale of The Sunset Villa Apartments in Edmonds. The team includes Jansen, Todd Thompson and Matt Wilson.

Regal Logistics

Regal Logistics hired Andy Crane and Tony Wilmoth as sales directors in charge of expanding services and market share. Regal said it has more than 1.2 million square feet of distribution space in the Pacific Northwest and the Southeast, specializing in high volume, mass retailer distribution.

Workshop on housing permits, codes

DDES and the Master Builders of King and Snohomish Counties are offering a workshop on residential building permits and code enforcement in unincorporated King County. The workshop is offered on two dates: Nov. 19 and Dec. 3. Both will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Master Builders in Bellevue, 335 116th Ave. S.E. Cost is $55. To register call Kristin Parker at MBA University at (425) 460-8231, or go online to http://www.masterbuildersinfo.com

UW Tacoma real estate program

The University of Washington Tacoma KeyBank Professional Development Center offers its Commercial Real Estate Certificate program starting Dec. 1, integrating economics, management, financing and marketing. Students work in teams to develop projects while learning about static analysis, development, taxation and sales. It is open to people working in real estate as well as architecture, construction, law and planning. Founding instructors include Layne Alfonso of GeoEngineers and Terry Fenton of Coldwell Banker. For more information and to apply see http://www.tacoma.washington.edu/pdc or call (253) 692-4618.

NAIOP

NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association has a special offer that allows people who join NAIOP now to receive the rest of 2009 for free. For more information go to http://www.naiop.org.

CREW topic: 'LinkedIn 101'

CREW Seattle & Sound will hold its Oct. 22 meeting at Columbia Center on the 40th floor starting at 7:30 a.m. with registration and breakfast. The topic is “LinkedIn 101.” Matthew Youngquist of Career Horizons will talk about setting up a profile and using it to network for your career. For information and registration see http://www.crewseattle.org.

WSCAR Education Day 2009

The Washington State Commercial Association of Realtors will hold its Education Day 2009 Oct. 22 on “Current Events in Commercial Real Estate” at the Red Lion Hotel on Fifth Avenue in Seattle. Speakers include University of Washington Professor Jim DeLisle with an economic update for the region; developer David Sabey on “Thriving Through Real Estate Cycles” and attorney Chris Osborn with a legal update. For more information and registration call (800) 275-2722.