Massive housing demand here
Building permits for 1,550 new residential units in Ballard have been issued in the past 18 months by Seattle's Department of Planning and Development, and there's more to come.
Much of that development has been in the form of condominiums and town homes.
According to Gunnar Hadley, a realtor with Ballard Windermere, 60 percent of everything sold here for the first five months of the year were condominiums and town homes. Hadley, who specializes in condo sales, called that an "impressive" statistic.
"That's truly crazy," he said.