There is an old saying about real estate investing, which is, "Buy in bad times on good economics and sell in good times on bad economics." I don't know who originally came up with the phrase, but it's a great rule to follow.Real estate, like of

A sealed-bid auction has failed to attract buyers for the top two floors of the 13-story former Ridpath Hotel tower downtown or for the four-story annex, known as the Y Building, that's just east of the tower. NAI Black sales and leasing agent

A physician has bought a 1.25-acre lot on Spokane's North Side and plans to develop a medical office building there when the economy improves, says the real estate broker who handled the transaction.The broker, Guy Byrd, of Cornerstone Property

The Spokane franchise of Other Mothers, a Phoenix, Ariz.-based concern that sells new and used women's, children's, and maternity clothes and children's furniture, has leased 5,300 square feet of floor space in the Whitworth Square shopping center,

Lydig Construction Inc., of Spokane, says it's converting a classroom into a wine-tasting lab on the Washington State University campus, in Pullman, as part of a $373,500 remodel of a portion of the university's Todd Hall Addition.The project a

Contractors Northwest, of Coeur d'Alene, is the apparent low bidder, with a bid of about $5 million, to construct a wastewater treatment plant for the city of Plummer, Idaho.Alan Gay, a project manager for the Spokane office of Anchorage, USKH a

Icon Corp., a Spokane Valley commercial roofing concern, says it has bought a 6,000-square-foot building about 10 miles east of the location it has leased for several years and has moved some of its operations there.The purchase of the former at

Leone & Keeble Inc. and Walker Construction Inc., both of Spokane, have formed a joint venture to take on an $8.2 million building project that will nearly double the size of North Valley Hospital, in Tonasket, Wash., hospital administrator Warner