Mar 07, 2013

Heartland LLC

Larson

Fiori

Dawson

Heartland, LLC, a real estate advisory and investment firm based in Seattle since 1984, said Deva Dawson, Chris Fiori and Doug Larson joined Jim Reinhardsen, Jeff Cook and Matt Anderson as principals effective Jan. 1. Dawson has been with Heartland since 2010 and is a senior investment manager in the Capital Markets Group. Fiori joined Heartland in July 2005 and is a senior project manager in the Public and Private Advisory Groups. Larson has been with the company since 2006 and is also a senior project manager in the Public and Private Advisory Groups.

HomeStreet Bank

Seattle-based mortgage lender HomeStreet Bank has opened its first California office in Pasadena. The lending center will be managed by Rob Levy. He was with Wells Fargo, and was the top seller of home loans nationwide in 2011 and the top producer in Southern California from 2008 to 2012. Levy will lead a staff of six brokers and assistants. HomeStreet Bank is 92 years old and has 22 retail branches and 26 lending centers in the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii and California. The company says it is the second most prolific mortgage loan producer in the Puget Sound region behind Wells Fargo.

Seattle housing advisory group

The Department of Planning and Development and Office of Housing is organizing an advisory group to review the city's low-income housing incentive programs. Tom Tierney, former executive director of Seattle Housing Authority, will chair the committee. The committee will weigh in on renewal of the Multifamily Tax Exemption program, recommend changes to low-income housing zoning incentives and look at adjusting the amount developers pay in lieu of providing low-income housing on site. Other members of the advisory group will be announced in the coming weeks.

FSBO conference here April 10

A conference called “For sale by owner: What you need to know to sell your home” will be offered April 10 in Seattle by The Seminar Group. The single-family home sector is finally turning around, and the conference will show sellers what it takes to market homes today. A panel will go over all the steps in selling a home. The event begins at 9 a.m. at the Washington State Convention Center. For more information, visit: http://bit.ly/13FfLA8

Red Lion Hotels

The Las Vegas Hotel & Casino — which recently jointed Spokane-based Red Lion Hotels' Leo Hotel Collection — is available for reservations through RedLion.com or 1-800-RED-LION. The 2,956-room hotel has 200,000 square feet of meeting space, a spa, an outdoor pool, tennis courts and access to a private golf course.

Feb 28, 2013

Kidder Mathews

Stanaway

Travis Stanaway has joined the South Seattle office of Kidder Mathews, where he will focus on sales and leasing of industrial properties. Kidder Mathews has more than 200 brokers in nine offices in Washington, Oregon and California.

Keller Williams Realty

Austin, Texas-based Keller Williams Realty says it now has the most real estate agents in the country. Keller Williams has approximately 80,000 brokers in 700 offices. It passed Coldwell Banker to become the largest brokerage. A strong 2012 helped fuel the company's growth. New agent hires last year increased 23 percent over 2011, and closed transactions were up 31 percent. Washington, Oregon and Idaho are among the top producing offices in the company.

Shorenstein Properties

Shorenstein Properties of San Francisco has completed the Building Owners and Managers Association's International 7-Point Challenge. The program is designed to help building owners reduce their environmental impact. Benchmarks in the 7-Point Challenge include: decreasing energy consumption by 30 percent; employing the Energy Star metrics to track energy performance and water usage; providing education to engineers, owners and operators; performing energy audits; and improving operations and building maintenance systems. At the challenge's conclusion, Shorenstein decreased energy usage 32 percent across the company's national office portfolio.