The UW Real Estate Office is responsible for handling all real estate property transactions for the University of Washington including leasing, purchasing and selling, as well as asset management and property management. The Real Estate Office is a department within Business Services.
Organized into 5 accessions.
Correspondence, agreements, easements, permits, land acquisition files, and summary financial information; 1949-1983. Sold property files, transaction files; 1954-1997. Correspondence, reports, land acquisition files, minutes, and title reports; 1950-1985. Transaction files; 1994-1997. UW Metropolitan Tract Office: Historical/organizational features, correspondence, memoranda, auditor's reports, financial records, leases and deeds, reports, administrative orders, appraisals, insurance files, tax files, inventories, litigation files, statements, studies, news releases, publicity, proposals, photographs, maps, clippings, subject series, other record series; 1902-1989, undated. Correspondence, minutes, brochures, deeds, leases, agreements, reports, building files, land appraisal, loan files, mortgage files, litigation, draft EIS, resolution, pamphlets, clippings, subject series; 1861-1991 (bulk 1952-1983). Various reports; circa 1965-1986. Photographs, financial material, publications, and other record series; ca. 1930-1975. Board of Regents and Metropolitan Tract Committee minutes, 1974-1995; Capital Assets Committee minutes, 1995-1996; Metropolitan Tract Committee detail reports, 1989-1994; lease excise tax returns, financial records, statistical reports, lease agreements, audits, subject series, architectural drawings, reports, biennial legislative reports, studies, planning documents, and other related material, 1948-1997 (bulk 1980-1995).
Public records, but advance notice is required to allow for screening of materials protected from disclosure by law. Please contact Special Collections for more information.
Some material stored offsite; advance notice required for use.
Public records (Use unrestricted when access is granted).
Received from the Real Estate Office, 1988-2007
Minimally processed.
See also records from the University of Washington Metropolitan Tract Office in Special Collections, UW Resource 07728.
Records stored offsite; advance notice required for use.
Records stored offsite; advance notice required for use.
Includes correspondence, financial records, agendas, deeds, transfer of deeds, title reports, and other legal documentation related to the selling of University-owned property to other parties.
Records stored offsite; advance notice required for use.
Includes correspondence, financial records, building leases, and other legal documentation related to closed files maintained by the UW Real Estate Office concerning possessory interest granted and obtained on properties owned by the University.
Records stored offsite; advance notice required for use.