Benefits of Using A Buyers Agent When Buying A Shoreline, WA Investment Property

If you're in the real estate investing business, are there benefits of using a buyers agent when looking for property? That's an easy one: yes, there are many benefits, and you should definitely use a buyers agent. The main reason is that a buyer's agent can help you make more money – the only reason you got into investing in the first place. The benefits of using a buyers agent when buying a Shoreline, WA investment property are too numerous to list in full, so let's take a look at the most important ones.

6 Ways To Market Your Shoreline, WA Property Without Holding An Open House

For a long time, the open house has been a standard marketing tool for sellers (though its effectiveness has been questioned for quite a while too). But today, in the age of COVID, open houses, even if they don’t present an outright health risk, just don’t make much sense anymore. Although home sales are still happening despite the pandemic, people are a little less inclined to visit open houses. Still, there are many other effective things you can do to market your property. So let’s take a look at 6 ways to market your Shoreline, WA property without holding an open house.

Relocating to Seattle For A Tech Job

Are you relocating to the Seattle area for a tech job? We have a lot of tech companies here. First, it was Microsoft, who has a huge campus over in Redmond. Then it was Amazon and we've also got Google and Facebook offices now. So the tech presence in Seattle is growing and it's bringing a lot of people to town. So if that's you, and you're wondering where to live and what are the pros and cons of these different neighborhoods in Seattle for the IT worker, be sure to watch this video, I'm going to break it down for you.
Hiking in Duvall, WA near Seattle - Emily Cressey

Sell This Winter or Wait ‘Til Spring?

If you have been thinking about selling your Shoreline, WA home this year, your plans might have gone slightly awry due to Coronavirus. Now we are lock-down again and people are wondering what is going to happen.

Right now we are seeing a lot of pent-up demand from the Spring uncertainty continuing to play out in our very competitive housing market. In a "balanced" market, we might see 6-months of inventory on the market, but now we have less than one month's worth. In fact, homes are continuing to be snapped up by buyers at full price (many at above-market rates due to competitive bidding situations in entry-level price point homes) and the average days on market in both King and Snohomish Counties are under 3 weeks.

Will Seattle Tech Workers Return To The City?

An article appeared in the Wall Street Journal this week noting tech workers leading Silicon Valley, California in droves. This begs the question of whether Seattle’s tech industry will be vacated next. Seattle Tech & Software Engineers Shift To At-Home Work Seattle, WA has long-enjoyed a strong employment base: first with Microsoft In Redmond, WA … Continued

Selling A House in Seattle-Everett-Bellevue: A Step By Step Process

It’s natural to face nerves and you should take your time with such a major decision. Selling a house probably isn't as simple as we'd like it to be, but it's not as complicated as it may seem at first glance. As with anything, if you break it down into the constituent steps of the process, it will be much easier to understand and accomplish – despite the legal and financial complexities and the mountain of paperwork. To that end, we offer this step by step guide for selling a house in...

How To Price Your House To Sell in Lake Forest Park, WA

Price Your House To Sell: If you want your house to sell for top dollar, that doesn’t always mean using a super-aggressive pricing strategy. Real estate experts agree that the single most important consideration for selling your house is pricing it right. Besides having to be aligned with the prices of similar homes in the … Continued