The Martin Apartments in Seattle: Current Prices, Fees, and What to Verify Before You Tour

Pricing and the real first-month cost

Base rent excludes utilities and most fees across every channel for this property, including this page. RentCafe’s live listing feed shows these currently available units:

Layered onto base rent: a $300 security deposit, a $400 refundable pet deposit if you have a pet, and $50 monthly pet rent per pet. All three are well inside Seattle’s own caps on these charges, covered below, but no listing site totals them into one figure.

For a pet-free studio tenant, the realistic cash needed to sign is about $2,492, not the $2,192 headline figure. Add a dog and the move-in total rises to roughly $2,892, plus $50 a month going forward. Application and parking fees weren’t confirmed by any primary source checked for this page; ask the leasing office for both before budgeting a final number.

Is the base rent shown here the actual monthly cost? No. It is the recurring rent line only. Utilities, any pet rent, and parking, priced separately by the property, sit on top of it every month, and the deposit is a one-time, refundable add-on at signing.

Building and unit facts

The building was designed by Callison and built by Exxel Pacific. Invesco’s 2014 purchase price was, at the time, the highest ever paid per unit for a Seattle apartment building, a fact that appears on none of the leasing sites but reflects how the market has priced this specific property.

Amenities, compressed

What residents report

Two different numbers describe resident sentiment here, and they measure different things. Windsor’s own site displays a 4.1 out of 5 rating sourced from Google. RentCafe’s listing shows a separate 4.0 rating built from 392 reviews on its own platform, broken into categories: amenities 4.5, location 4.5, maintenance 4.5, staff 4.5, value 4.0, parking 4.0, noise 4.0. Neither page reconciles the two, and averaging them would manufacture a number nobody actually measured.

The category breakdown carries more information than either headline score: value and noise both sit a half-point below the property’s other categories, worth raising directly on a tour rather than inferring from the top-line number.

Pet policy in plain terms

Up to two pets per unit are allowed, with a $400 refundable deposit and $50 monthly rent per pet. Cats, dogs, birds, and fish are welcome; reptiles and exotic or undomesticated animals are not. The property excludes several dog breeds by name: German Shepherds, Pit Bulls, and Rottweilers, along with mixes of these breeds. If you own one of these breeds, this is disqualifying information to confirm before scheduling a tour, not after.

Are all dog breeds allowed? No. German Shepherds, Pit Bulls, Rottweilers, and mixes of these breeds are specifically excluded under the property’s current pet policy.

Washington’s rent-increase cap and Seattle’s move-in rules

Two legal facts change how this lease behaves after signing, and neither appears on any leasing site for this property.

Seattle limits move-in charges directly: a security deposit combined with any nonrefundable move-in fees cannot exceed one month’s rent, move-in fees alone cannot exceed 10% of the first month’s rent, and pet deposits cannot exceed 25% of the first month’s rent, per the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections. The Martin’s $300 deposit and $400 pet deposit both sit comfortably inside these caps for every unit type listed above.

A statewide law that took effect on May 7, 2025 also caps how much rent can rise once a tenant is in place. A landlord cannot raise rent at all during a tenant’s first 12 months, and after that, any increase in a rolling 12-month period is capped at the lesser of 10% or 7% plus the Seattle-area Consumer Price Index, according to the Washington State Attorney General’s Office. The published cap for calendar year 2026 is 9.683%. Landlords must give 90 days’ written notice before any increase takes effect.

Can the rent go up as much as the landlord wants after I sign? No. Washington’s rent-stabilization law caps any increase after the first year at the lesser of 10% or 7% plus CPI, currently 9.683% for 2026, with 90 days’ written notice required.

How it compares nearby

Exact square footage for the comparable buildings’ cheapest units wasn’t available from the sources checked, so this table stops short of a per-square-foot column rather than estimating one. The Insignia figure is a different product entirely: an individually owned condo listed by its owner, not a building-managed lease, which changes everything from maintenance response time to renewal terms.

How current is the pricing shown on this page? The unit-level figures come from RentCafe’s live feed, refreshed the day this page was checked. Historical data for this building shows studio pricing has swung by over $1,000 a month for the same unit type across previous years, so treat any figure here as a starting point to confirm directly, not a locked-in number.

Location and commute

The property carries a Walk Score of 99 and a Transit Score of 100. Those figures weight nearby amenities by distance and population density rather than measuring sidewalk quality or safety, so a “Walker’s Paradise” score means errands are reachable on foot, not that the walk itself is quiet.

Good fit if, worse fit if

• Good fit if: you want a car-free downtown location, don’t own a restricted dog breed, and can absorb base rent above $2,800 for anything beyond a studio.
• Worse fit if: you own a German Shepherd, Pit Bull, or Rottweiler, need guaranteed parking pricing before applying, or are pricing strictly against citywide averages rather than this building’s current inventory.

What this page can’t promise

Unit-level availability changes daily; the units listed above may be leased by the time you read this. Individual unit condition, noise exposure, and view quality vary by floor and can’t be judged from a listing photo.