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.
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
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.”
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.
If you have been wondering the best way to choose a realtor to help you buy or sell a home, you might ask yourself: Does your real estate agent really matter? Or are they all kind of the same? As with any service-based business, much of what realtors do seems similar when observed from the outside. However, real estate agents differ, not only in personality but in skills. How can your real estate agent differentiate themselves?
Buying or selling real estate is a big undertaking involving a complex process with many moving parts. So whether you’re a buyer or seller, you need to be informed and understand as much about it as you can. The problem, though, is that what you find online is often incomplete at best and just flat wrong at worst. So it’s a good idea to go old school and read the best books on the topic before taking that big step. Here, then, are our picks for the top-5 real estate books to help buyers and sellers in Shoreline, WA.
Whenever I meet with new real estate clients – whether they are buyers or sellers – one of the first things I like to present to them is our Northwest MLS (NWMLS) real estate contracts. These documents are the “standard” attorney-reviewed contracts used by licensed agents in the Puget Sound area for many types of real estate transactions: buying a house, condo or multi-family home, leasing, or even buying or selling a business.
If you’re thinking about buying or selling a home in the Seattle area, you’ll want to keep a pulse on what’s happening with mortgage rates. Rates have been climbing in recent months, especially since January 2022 of this year. And just a few weeks ago, the 30-year fixed mortgage rate from Freddie Mac approached 4% for the first time since May of 2019. That blew my mind because I didn’t think it would get there til the end of the year, but BOOM, it happened faster than anybody thought.
I get great questions all the time from my home buyers and seller clients here in the Seattle, WA – Bellevue, WA real estate market. My goal is to help them learn and understand the market we are in so they can make smart decisions based on their own situation. One client was recently discouraged … Continued
The new year is here, what does it hold for the real estate market?
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Throughout King County, Washington the median home sales price rose 13.5% in 2021, to $749,000. Outlying towns and suburban/rural suburbs with lower price points saw higher appreciation rates. Snohomish County saw a 23% increase, and Pierce County rose 20% last year.
