REAL ESTATE

NAI Columbia’s Ben Kelly, CCIM, Patrick Chambers, and Jack Springs leased 2,000 SF of retail space located at 6908 Two Notch Road in Northeast Columbia and sold 465 Industrial Drive in Lexington. The property is 18,785 SF industrial property. NAI Columbia’s Patrick Palmer, CCIM and Bobby Balboni, CCIM leased 1,500 SF of retail space

Intracorp, HAL Real Estate Buy Vacant Office Building in Bellevue, Washington for $18M

BELLEVUE, WASH. — A Intracorp and equity partner HAL Real Estate have purchased a site that houses a vacant, 60,423-square-foot office building in Bellevue for $18 million.  The site is located at 3190 160th Ave. SE in the Eastgate neighborhood. The building was constructed in 1982 and was previously leased to Washington Department of Ecology for several decades.  Official plans for the site have not yet been announced, but the buyer may execute shorter-term leases at the existing office building until a redevelopment strategy is finalized.  Pat Mutzel of Cushman & Wakefield’s Private Capital Group, in collaboration with Jeffrey Cole, Jeff Chiate, Bryce Aberg, Mike Adey, Nico Napolitano and Zach Harman of the firm’s West Coast Capital Markets Group, represented the seller, a private, high-net-worth investment group. Mutzel also advised the sale of the property in December 2019 for a price of $16.3 million.

Empty Offices Increase Risks for Banks Lending to Commercial Real Estate

Banks that loaned money for commercial real estate ventures may be feeling the pinch as many office and business spaces continue to sit vacant in the wake of COVID-19. According to recent reports, commercial real estate loans are seeing increases in delinquencies on payments—the latest in a string of bad news for the financial sector that includes bank failures, inflation, and rising interest rates.