Let Us "Price Your Home" For You: You Might Be Shocked At The Current Value

Pricing is all about supply and demand. No automated valuation program found on-line can perfectly price your home. For that you need an experienced Real Estate agent who knows your market and who has a track record of success in your area. It's part art and part science, and no two agents price property the same way.

 Here are some of the steps that go into properly pricing your home.

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Pull Comparable Listings and Sales

• Look at every similar home that was or is listed in the same neighborhood over the past six months.
• The list should contain homes within a 1/4 mile to a…

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Smart Budgeting Checklist: Annual Home Maintenance

  Planning and budgeting for annual home maintenance projects is just plain smart. First, it ensures that you’ll have money on hand to perform routine maintenance when it’s required. And second, it keeps your home in tip-top shape — helping you avoid costly, unexpected repairs.

Use this checklist to plan and budget for your routine seasonal projects. It’s an easy way to stay on top of year-round home maintenance!

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Home Buyers and Sellers Being Rewarded During "Intense" Holiday Market

• Inventory Critically Low.
• Housing Market "Red Hot" this holiday season.
• Buyers finding less competition and are taking advantage of rates before they increase.
• Pending sales increase by 10% continuing drop in available inventory.

KIRKLAND, Washington (December 4, 2015) – Inventory remains "critically low," but there are fewer house-hunters in the hunt during this holiday season so motivated sellers and buyers are seeing success, according to brokers with Northwest Multiple Listing Service. Its just-released statistics for November show year-over-year gains in pending sales, closed sales, and prices, but a steep decline in inventory.

"The housing market continues to be red-hot on a seasonal basis, but this…

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Surprising Holiday Home-Buying Trends

By Yuqing Pan

Thanksgiving evokes certain unshakable images: Long tables crammed with too much food. Beloved and bickering family members consuming way too much of that food. Overstuffed family members staggering away from the table to watch football. And once the crumbs and turkey bones and cranberries are cleared away, just about everyone gearing up for the biggest shopping day of the year: Black Friday.

While prowling the malls for fantastic deals has become enshrined as a traditional part of many Americans’ holiday season, it has long been considered conventional wisdom that this sales fervor doesn’t extend to shopping for a home—that there’s no deluge of would-be buyers surfing the Web for listings or slogging through the (presumed) snow to…

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8 Reasons Why a Housing Crash Is Unlikely

The U.S. is nearing the 10-year anniversary of the 2006-2007 housing bubble. Should Americans be worried that history could repeat itself? After all, home prices have risen above the bubble era in many hot markets like Seattle, Denver and San Diego.

Housing experts say there are many reasons why Americans shouldn’t be concerned about a housing crisis repeat anytime soon, including:

1. Fixed-rate loans have become more common. Many Americans have refinanced to a fixed-rate mortgage so when interest rates begin to rise – which is largely predicted to happen next month – there will not be as much shock with short-term Adjustable Rate Mortgages compared to the 2008-2009 era. In 2008-2009, many Americans had their ARMs reset and then could no longer…

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Top 10 Neighborhood Considerations When Buying a Home

The Cascade Team is a real estate brokerage whose focus is centered on customer service.  Our customer's are our number one priority and our local agent team works hard to not only find properties that meet your needs and wants, but also leverages their local market knowledge to help guide you through the home search process.  Our commitment to excellence in service is unparalleled in the areas in which we serve.  While we offer a number of online tools to assist you with your home search, having a knowledgeable local agent to guide you is so important, especially when the local market heats up.  Multiple offers, escalation clauses, negotiations, etc, are all critical items in helping you secure your new home, and that's where our service and local…

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FREE Smart-Home Checklist

The growing number of smart-home devices in houses has begged the question of security. These devices can be particularly vulnerable to hackers who may want to break in to home owners' private networks.

In response, the Online Trust Alliance recently created a "smart-home checklist," which provides consumers with information to increase the security and privacy of their home. For example, homes that use smart apps and devices to monitor security, temperature, and lighting are collecting personal information about the home owner.

"Although we enjoy the benefits of a connected lifestyle, we must not lose sight of the risks a smart home may pose to our privacy and physical safety," says Craig Spiezle, president and executive director of the Online…

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Real Estate Market Update Nov 2015: Real Estate Brokers Expect Only a Modest Holiday Slowdown

• Prices up 7.3% YOY
• Pending Transactions up 7.8%
• Closed Sales up over 7%
• Only 1.29 Months of Inventory for King County
• 2015 is Busiest October in 10 Years
  

Real estate brokers expect only a modest holiday slowdown, saying strong economy, low inventory make this year "different"

KIRKLAND, Washington (November 5, 2015) – With holidays approaching, real estate brokers usually expect a slowdown as buyers and sellers shift their attention elsewhere. "This year is different," say some industry leaders.

"Today we have one of the best markets we’ve ever seen for sellers," observed Ken Anderson, managing broker and owner at Coldwell Banker Evergreen in Olympia. "Buyers are still surging to the market and…

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Top 5 Home Features That Buyers Are Searching For This Fall

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Whether you’re getting prepared to buy a new home or just curious about upcoming trends in housing, there are a bevy of features gaining momentum on the real estate market. From top to bottom and room to room, here are five popular features that homebuyers will be sure to notice this fall.

Bigger Is Not Necessarily Better

There was a time when a bigger home meant a better home, but with the cost of maintenance and heating, bigger homes are experiencing a decline in popularity. Instead of sizeable mansions that look the part, buyers are becoming more interested in houses that are more economical to maintain and…

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Sammamish Ranked The 39th Best Suburb in America by Business Insider

39. Sammamish, Washington

Population: 47,766

Great Schools score: 8 

With an official motto of "Building Community Together," the city of Sammamish in King County, Washington, is as friendly as it gets. The unemployment rate is a low 5%, the median household income is $143,919, and, according to Forbes, the city's crime rate is approximately 90% lower than the national average.   

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