Art means a lot to us, as our brand is rooted in a 272-year Sotheby’s Auction House heritage. Thus we were thrilled to explore the latest exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum, Kehinde Wiley’s A New Republic. As the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) website describes, Wiley reworks the tradition of the portrait. His pieces, which range in medium and include paintings, stained glass and sculpture, “are highly stylized and staged, and draw attention to the dialectic between a history of aristocratic representation and the portrait as a statement of power and the individual’s sense of empowerment.”
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Market Spotlight: Belltown & Downtown Seattle
Belltown is named for William Nathaniel Bell, one of the original settlers whose heavily forested land became downtown Seattle. The Belltown/Downtown area is where many Seattle landmarks like Pike Place Market and Smith Tower are found. Fortune 500 companies Nordstrom and Expeditors International are headquartered here. Among the many ongoing projects downtown, work began in June 2015 to lay the foundation for Weyerhaeuser’s new headquarters in Pioneer Square, to be opened in 2016; and the Pioneer Building on First Avenue has been purchased for redevelopment as co-working space and suites for small businesses and entrepreneurs. The pioneers’ clapboard houses are long gone and virtually all recorded sales are now of mid-rise and high-rise condominiums in this vibrant, 21st century city.
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What’s Next: Your Weekly Event Calendar
Your comprehensive guide, take a peek at what’s going on! From the Flower and Garden Show in downtown Seattle and a Lunar New Year Celebration at the Bellevue Collection to the Asian American Film Festival at Velocity, here’s what’s happening around the sound.
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Introducing The Market Report: Puget Sound Real Estate Trends & 2015 Year In Review
We are proud to present the Market Report: Puget Sound Real Estate Trends & 2015 Year in Review, a comprehensive look at the 2015 real estate market in an exploration of seven key counties of Western Washington: King, Snohomish, Kitsap, Pierce, Jefferson and Island counties, as well as 29 neighborhoods for our current and prospective clients. The report touches on macroeconomic trends, the primary demand drivers influencing our regional real estate market in addition to micro markets that vary greatly from neighborhood to neighborhood.
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What’s Next: Your Weekly Event Calendar
Your comprehensive guide, take a peek at what’s going on! From Valentine’s Day Weekend activities at Chihuly Garden + Glass and a brunch cruise taking off from Marina Park in Kirkland to performances of Love Letters on Bainbridge Island, here’s what’s happening around the sound.
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Happy Lunar New Year!!!
Six Basic Personal Finances Facts People Constantly Get Wrong
According to a recent article on LifeHacker, it seems that there are a lot of financial “facts” out there that actually aren’t facts at all. No wonder there’s so much confusion regarding personal finance!
What’s Next? Your Weekly Event Calendar
Your comprehensive guide, take a peek at what’s going on! From Romeo et Juliette at McCaw Hall and the return of the Issaquah Wine Walk to the Seattle Boat Show at Century Link and Lake Union, here’s what’s happening around the sound.
The PSBJ Reports an Increase in All-Cash Buyers in the Seattle Area
The Puget Sound Business Journal recently reported that, “nearly two-thirds of the people who bought high-end homes last year in the Seattle area paid cash.” In the feature, Stiles cites Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty research which found that the most expensive sale of 2015 was a waterfront estate on Mercer Island at $13.8 million.
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What’s Next? Your Weekly Event Calendar
Your comprehensive guide, take a peek at what’s going on! From the Chamber Music Winterfest at Benaroya Hall and the Seattle Boat Show at CenturyLink and Lake Union, to the RSIR & Luxury Home Magazine event next week at the Connoisseurs of Life Showroom, here’s what’s happening around the sound.