Chinese investors, who have long favored other West Coast areas, now are paying cash to snap up mansions and land around Seattle.

Absent an arena, the values would sink back to well below that Chris Hansen paid for them. Will he bide his time, or start looking for other uses for assembled lands?

The 98004 zip code from the Eastside was responsible for most of the multi-million dollar home sales in Seattle during the first quarter of this year, local real estate company Redfin said. 

Four years and about 900 permits later, Vancouver's laneway housing policy is up for review.

The Viking Tavern joins the list of authentic places being pushed out by condo-economics and the need for the owners to have a retirement nest egg.

Seattle home prices are up nearly 10 percent in the past year. The numbers match a nationwide rise in home prices. 

The pace of building is torrid, which worries observers about creating a glut. Renters could find prices coming down.