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Serving Washington State since 1975, Westlake Associates has earned its reputation as a leader in Commercial and Investment Real Estate Brokerage. We’ve built a strong foundation of experience in Investment Property Sales, Commercial Leasing, Property Management, and comprehensive real estate services over our 45 year history. At Westlake Associates, we operate as a team and leverage each other’s resources and experience to provide the highest level of client services.

“45 years of integrity, insight, and experience form the foundation of Westlake Associates.”

Brian Bergman - Principal

Our Services

An incredible sales team, here to help.

Representing individual and corporate assets from large industrial sites in Tukwila to family owned apartment buildings in Ballard.

The highest level of commercial services.

From large Medical Institutions like Virginia Mason, to local start-ups like HomeGrown, we provide the highest levels of commercial services. We have a proven record of integrity, discretion, and secure operations, while executing on sensitive client operations.

We work to preserve tenant relationships.

We offer the highest level of management services in accounting, maintenance, and operations. We always strive to uphold strong tenant relationships and a diligent attention to detail in every aspect of management.

Our History

  • Westlake Founders
    1975

    Westlake Established

    Westlake Associates, Inc. was established in 1975 at 1500 Westlake Avenue North on Lake Union.

    Jack Allbritton, Edward Boyle, Michael Cooper, John Downing, Patrick Hamerly , Robert Nakao, John O’Neil, James Rose and Carl Schaber founded Westlake with the intention to provide exceptional service to clients through leveraging each others’ relationships & understanding of the Seattle market.

    Unlike other brokerages, the founders structured the company to run on a cooperative model, one of the first cooperative real estate brokerages in the city. It is still run as a cooperative today.

  • Westlake circa 1980
    Early years

    1975-1976

    In the beginning, the founding brokers primarily sold apartment buildings with a total of 38 deals closed in the first year of business, the largest being the sale of the 146-unit Villa Roma for $2,505,000.

  • 1980

    Growing Around The Lake

    The 1500 Westlake location was too small for the original eight Partners so they moved around the lake to 1627 Eastlake Avenue East, creating much confusion by being Westlake Associates, Inc. on Eastlake Avenue. The Partners began hiring Associates, many of whom later became Partners.

  • 1992

    Time on Eastlake

    As the Company grew, Westlake Associates, Inc. then moved to yet another Eastlake Avenue location – 2810 Eastlake Avenue East – in 1992 where it remained until November 2014.

  • The Westlake Associates Team
    2014

    Back to Westlake

    In November 2014, Westlake Associates, Inc. finally returned to Westlake Avenue to its current location in the AGC Building on South Lake Union.

  • 2024

    Westlake Today

    Today Westlake Associates, Inc. specializes in the sale of apartments of all sizes, commercial properties and building sites as well as providing professional property management. Our firm consists of thirty real estate professionals with four key employees, who operate as a team and leverage each other’s resources and experience.