Interest Rates Are Up, Recession Fears On The Horizon
So what’s happening in the Seattle Economy (and Nationally) right now?
Category: Sellers
Staging Secrets To Make Your Property Look More Spacious in Shoreline, WA.
When you're trying to sell your home, the bigger you can make it look, the better buyers will like it. For one thing, it will make them think they're getting more square footage for their purchase dollar. With the right staging tactics, even a small home can be made to seem much larger.
10 Tips for Selling Your House in Seattle
There are all kinds of advice and tips from lots of “experts” about how to sell your house and sell it fast. Sometimes the advice sounds good, and sometimes it seems pretty bizarre. But when you distill all that advice down to its basic essence, you get pretty much the same thing across the board … Continued
10 Simple Ways To Clean Up Your House For Showings in Seattle!
Preparing your house for showings, especially the cleaning, can appear at first glance like an overwhelming, hopeless undertaking. And it most likely will be if you don't go about it in the right way. There are, however, some tricks and tactics to make the whole thing much more manageable. So pay attention to these simple ways to clean up your house for showings.
Questions to Ask Your Agent When Selling Your Seattle Home
If you're thinking about selling your home, you're probably also thinking about getting an agent. That's a good idea – if that is, you get a good agent, one who is knowledgeable and experienced in the right ways. In fact, in looking for agents, you should treat that first conversation as a job interview, with you as the employer and the agent as the prospective employee. With that in mind, we offer these questions to ask your agent when selling your Seattle home.
How Your Listing Photos Impact The Sale of Your Shoreline, WA Home
At the most basic level, your photos need to look technically sharp and polished. Take them with a professional camera (or at least a very good smartphone camera), and make sure the shots are in focus, correctly exposed, and properly framed. Unappealing or amateurish shots won't sell. There was a time when you or your real estate agent would snap a few quick listing photos with a cheap disposable camera, and that was good enough.
Seattle Market Cooling? People Have Been Waiting 40 Years.
Are you waiting for the Seattle Real Estate market to “cool off?” Some buyers who were hoping to buy a million-dollar home in Bothell just texted my assistant and said they were pulling out of the market for a year to see if things would “cool off.”
Determining Your Property Value in Seattle, WA: Benefits of A CMA
When you're considering selling your property, a logical first step is to figure out what it's worth. Now, this doesn't mean the price you want (although can be an important consideration). Rather, what it means is the fair market value – what other comparable properties in the immediate area have sold for in the recent past. There are, then, definite benefits of a CMA for determining your property value in Seattle, WA.
How To Stay Positive When Selling Your House in Shoreline, WA
It might have been love at first sight years ago, but the time has come when you realize you need to break up with your current home and move on to something better. How do you make a clean break and focus your time and energy on your new love — the house of your dreams?
7 Smart Ways To Save for a Down Payment in Seattle
Saving money for a down payment to buy a house in Seattle, WA is a big deal. It's expensive to live here, and getting more so by the day. Whether you're saving 5%, 10%, or 20% down, this is not something that is going to happen overnight by digging spare change out of the couch.