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Seattle Real Estate: When Your Condo Board Wants to Sell Your Home

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seattle real estate Seattle is pretty amazing!

I wrote a piece yesterday on the Laurelon Condo project and Children's Hospital's desire to purchase the entire six acre 136 unit complex as a way of expanding.  The reported amount of money Children's Hospital is willing to pay is 2.8 times the market value of each of the units - $93 million dollars! 

Now if someone wanted to pay 2.8 times the value of my house, I would sell it in a second and pat myself on the back for the great investment I made, and for most of the Laurelon this seems to be the case.  There are, however, a few long time residents who don't want to lose their home and i have to sympathize with them on this as well.  Here is their argument.

So can the condo board sell your home out from under you to be bulldozed down?

 Maybe!  In 1990 the state of Washington passed a measure which enables properties to be sold if 80% of the owners approve.  This went into effect for new properties going forward and did not touch older properties like Laurelon, so it remains to be seen whether or not the sale can be pulled off.

Interesting - I will keep you updated.

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Courtney Cooper

Luxury Realtor | With Offices in Downtown, North Seattle, & Kirkland

Cooper Jacobs Luxury Real Estate

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