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See the list of "Questions to Ask Before You Hire a Real Estate Broker" Here:

Follow These Steps If Your Home Has Not Sold Within 30 Days Of Hitting The Market:

Nothing is more frustrating than a product or service that fails to perform as expected.

In the case of real estate, you hire a listing agent to sell your home because he says he can get the job done, yet several weeks after listing your home for sale you are not under contract. Moreover, you are not seeing the critical signs that indicate that your real estate agent is doing what it takes to get you moved.

Unfortunately for home sellers, there is a large segment of real estate agents who want your listing for ulterior motives.  They are prepared to "buy your listing," knowing they…

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Some Highlights:

  • Real estate outranks stocks/mutual funds, gold, savings accounts/CDs, and bonds as the best long-term investment among Americans.
  • Real estate is ranked as the best long-term investment among all age groups.
  • Millennials rank both real estate and savings/CDs at 26% when it comes to the best long-term investment.

Just remember: Browsing the listings for months is one way search out the deals, but weighing the investment potential of each property can be difficult, and many homes for sale are never listed publicly.

The Home Buying Process

As you begin to think about buying a home, you're probably acutely aware that this is likely to be your greatest investment ever (short of children or a good marriage), and…

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Get To Know Trossachs

Everything You Need to Know About Your Trossachs Neighborhood

Here are the answers to your questions about Trossachs!

1. How much have home values in Trossachs increased just since January 1st of this year? Price per square foot in Trossachs has gone UP from $256.49 per sq ft to $276.08 per sq ft. Sale prices have gone UP from 99.40% of the asking price up to 103.61% of the asking price. That is an increase of 7.2% OR on an $800,000 home an increase of over $57,600!

2. What is the average number of days a Trossachs home takes to sell? 19 Days

3. What is the price per square foot difference between a Buchan and a Murray Franklin Home in Trossachs? Sold Buchan Homes are going for: $287.68 per sq ft with a median…

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Sellers: What Every Buyer Wants to Know about Your Home   By Suzanne De Vita

Home sellers are in an advantageous position this summer, with demand high and sales at their strongest in close to a decade. Planning to list your home in the coming weeks? Get the most for your house before the season’s up by making it accessible to buyers—with information.

Every homebuyer wants to know specific aspects of homes they’re considering purchasing—information that may seem premature to advertise initially, but could ultimately be determining factors in their decision to make an offer.

This information may include:

  • How old is the home? When was it last renovated? How old is the roof?
  • What structures or fixtures are included in the list price? (Appliances, ceiling…

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70 total transactions for The Cascade Team this week! Thank you to everyone out there making it happen, being involved, and to our behind the scenes staff of Coordinators, stagers and photographers for giving it everything you've got!  

  • The Cascade Team listed 24 properties for sale this week.
  • Closed 28 Transactions &
  • Added 18 more Mutually Accepted Contracts!
From our first listing in Spokane, to $1million+ properties in Woodinville and (3) in Sammamish The Cascade Team also listed homes in North Bend, Kirkland, a Seattle Condo's, Bothell and more than a dozen other cities including in Buckeye Arizona..  View our newest Listings HERE   We also happily added two new Team members this week!  

But the real winners…

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Just Name Your Home's Selling Price

What would you consider selling your home for? 

We have many buyers out there looking and with a lack of inventory, we may just have a buyer for your home.  All it takes is 30 seconds to fill out the form below. Let us know what price you would take for your home, and if we have a buyer we'll let you know! To learn more about what we offer our home seller clients, CLICK HERE.

Name the price you would be willing to sell for.

We'll contact you if we have an interested buyer.

You can sell your home with no  hassle.

Results speak for themselves! See our Results HERE! 

 

Get A FREE Real Time Home Value Report From The…

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Housing inventory shortages persist despite increase in new listings:  


KIRKLAND, Washington (June 6, 2016) – Just as expected, the month of May had an uptick in new listings (12,272), but just as many buyers (12,275) made offers on homes during the month to keep inventory depleted, according to the latest figures from Northwest Multiple Listing Service. 

  1. Inventory down 22% from last year (2015)
  2. 80% Of all homes listed are sold within the first 30 days
  3. King County median price is up 16.5% for single family homes since last year


“Inventory is being squeezed from all directions,” reported Frank Wilson, branch managing broker at John L. Scott in Poulsbo. He said the pool of house-hunters includes young first-time buyers, renters…

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Thank you again to everyone who helped and participated in the 2016 Project Crayon Drive to benefit Children’s Hospital of Seattle. And a special shout out to our friends at KMPS for showing up with their truck and some added man-power to help us load up and deliver this morning. This year we collected just over 102,000 crayons for this wonderful event. Everyone’s time and effort really goes a long way and all of our sponsors, participants and everyone who took the time to donated arte appreciated far more than mere words can ever express!

Thank you all so much! 

Project Crayon Drive - Celebrating 11 Years!

Help us Brighten a Child's Life!

For the 11th year, The Cascade Team is once again hosting Project Crayon Drive this April! For…

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Single-family homes across the Seattle metro area are increasing in price at a rate twice the national average.

By Mike Rosenberg Seattle Times business reporter

Seattle home prices have hit a record and are now rising faster than any major city outside the Pacific Northwest, according to the latest S&P/Case-Shiller data.

Compared with a year ago, Seattle area single-family home values in March were up 10.8 percent, behind only Portland, where prices have shot up 12.3 percent in the last year, according to the Case-Shiller index released Tuesday. The Seattle growth rate was more than double the national average of 5.2 percent.

March also marked the first time the Seattle region surpassed its home value peak last seen in summer…

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If you can be secure enough with yourself to do an honest assessment of where you are at in your career, where you want to be, and what the most successful agent/brokers around you are doing, then you’ll have an idea of your potential success in the long term.

Forget about sales numbers. How do the most successful agents think and believe?

Visualize a pyramid with the six distinct levels represented below. Level one represents the first part of the journey to success in real estate, and level six represents the pinnacle. This pyramid is useful as an assessment tool to see where you operate on a daily basis and whether you need to make adjustments.

No one is locked into a level, and you can absolutely aspire to consistent improvement from one…

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