Community Living
Live in Community: Pathways to Co-Buying Oct 10th
Looking to learn more on how to form your own co-ownership agreements for purchasing property with friends & family? The housing market has changed, but you have more options than you think: Buying a home on a single income, or even a dual income, is harder than it’s ever been, but there’s a path that…
Read MoreCo-Buying with Friends & Family: Event May 17th
Build Your Village: How Co-Buying Can Make Homeownership Possible — and What You Need to Know By Eva Otto, Designated Broker, Infiniti Real Estate & Development When I first started helping people co-buy homes in the Seattle area over a decade ago, the idea seemed unconventional. But today, co-buying is no longer a fringe concept…
Read MoreCommunity Living Part 3: Co-Living, Collectives, Cooperatives
Density is coming; as City planners adjust zoning to accommodate denser communities and move away from the sprawl, and as the price of housing soars against wages, affordable housing comes in the form of shared space.
Read MoreCommunity Living Part 2: Intentional Communities and Ecovillages
Ecovillages are often dedicated to stewarding healthy landscapes, healthy people and fostering community. They often have a focus that goes beyond just interpersonal relations but also highly value land stewardship and its ecological functions.
Most Community living models as GEN states are “living laboratories†or experiments, and like experiments many of them fail. However, it is through this trial experimentation process that we discover what works and what doesn’t.
Read MoreCommunity Living Part 1: Emerging Models for Co-Housing
Community is one of our core values at Infiniti Real Estate & Development and it’s at center of many things we do throughout the year. There are many models of community living, and today in Part 1 of our 4-part series on Community Living we are focusing in on Co-Housing.
Read MoreCohousing 101 Class 2/29 & Happy Hour with New Communities
Join Schemata Workshop principal and founder Grace Kim for Cohousing 101, an in-depth workshop session explaining the benefits of cohousing. Grace will be joined by Eva Otto of Infiniti Real Estate and Development, a full-service brokerage specializing in innovative housing solutions for the Greater Seattle area.
Read MoreThe Roost — A New Affordable Urban Co-Living Community
As part of our launch, we are doing extensive outreach to artists and arts organizations. We hope that you will assist us in spreading the word about this project via your own social network.
The Roost is a unique project, unlike anything we have ever designed before.
Read MoreInclusion of Art in Community Development
Milenco’s biggest motivation of founding Pomegranate Center was as an artist, he wanted to see more art in communities because he believes it influences and embellishes everyday life. Since 1986 the Pomegranate Center has worked with hundreds of communities around the Greater Seattle area and tried increasing community engagement within their projects to make successful and stronger communities.
Read More“Yes, In My Backyard!” Seattle’s Sustainable Approach to Homelessness
“No in my backyard†— a common concept that potentially prohibits social justice and discourages us work toward a better community for everyone. Homelessness, for example, is a serious issues that causes many of us to look away.
Read MoreSome unmarried couples co-buying homes as housing prices soar
According to the Northwest MLS, between 2011 and 2016, home prices in Pierce County rose 29%. Prices rose 38% in Snohomish County and 38% in King County. In 2011, the median home price was $340,000, but it jumped to $548,000 in 2016.
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