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.