If you are working in one of greater Seattle’s many booming office submarkets, chances are office property in that neighborhood is among the most expensive in the country. Washington is home to the third-highest number of pricey office submarkets in the nation, according to a recent study ranking.

Washington, with a total of 10 office submarkets on the list ― all in greater Seattle ― ranked behind only California, with 36; and North Carolina, with 11, according to the analysis by commercial real estate blog Commercial Café. Its study ranked the 100 most expensive office submarkets in the country based on 2019 sales transactions.

In fact, Seattle’s Lake Union neighborhood ranks as the eighth most expensive office submarket in the nation, with the average sales price per square foot last year averaging $886.61. That compares with San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood, ranking seventh at $942.93 per square foot; and the Shoreline neighborhood in Mountain View, California, (just southeast of Palo Alto) at $1,554.16 per square foot.

“Besides Lake Union, nine other Washington submarkets made our list,” states the Commercial Café report. “These include Seattle metro’s Bellevue at No. 14; the Seattle central business district at No. 23; the I-90 Corridor at No. 27; and Northern Seattle at No. 29.”