Work For a Brokerage That Works For You!

The Cascade Team is a brokerage built to support our agents, provide the best training and technology, and to be a vital part of the communities we serve. 

As you look at brokerages to call home and build your real estate career, there are two very important questions you should always ask yourself. The answers to these questions are critical to the success of your career as a real estate professional.

Does your real estate brokerage help you sell homes?

OR

Does your brokerage sell “things” to the real estate agents?

By providing full marketing support which can be seen HERE: The Cascade Team not only helps you attract more listings, But we also help you attract more buyers. In face we currently represent 53% Buyers and 47%…

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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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Top 10 Cities Where You’re Most Likely to Find a Haunted House

Who believes in ghosts, anyway? But then again, there you are: alone, in the dim, waning hours of night, listening to that odd, undefinable rustling, whimpering noise right outside your bedroom window, and—wait a minute! Is that noise coming from inside the house?

IT’S INSIDE THE HOUSE! 

OK, well let’s just say that anyone can have their doubts.

And there are some places that just lend themselves naturally to ghost sightings and big-time scares. The sites of major, high body-count battlegrounds, for example. Or cities festooned with large, ancient cemeteries, or perhaps those with an abandoned mental asylum or two. So who you gonna call to separate the vaguely creepy from the downright haunted? The Cascade Team, that’s who!

Our fearless…

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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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Spooky Real Estate Stories

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We asked Real Estate Brokers and Agents from around the country for there best "Spooky Real Estate Experiences", but we didn’t want such great stories to disappear like ghosts in the night. So, in preparation for Halloween, we thought you might like to read through some of these narratives. Here are a few that sent tingles down our spines (lightly edited for style, grammar, and length).

I had a home on the market that was built in the late 1700s. The seller was putting his mom’s former home on the market, and it was vacant. Every Monday morning, I noticed a drip line running from the countertop across the fireplace to a doorway in the kitchen. I cleaned it up about three times. Finally, I called someone in to take a…

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What Price Would You Consider Selling Your Home For?

Just Name Your Home's Selling Price

What would you consider selling your home for? 

Sign up to receive an alert if a buyer is interested.  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. To learn more about what we offer our home seller clients, CLICK HERE.

Results speak for themselves! See our Results HERE! 

Get A FREE Real Time Home Value Report From The Cascade Team! Just Click HERE

Home prices in…

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Holiday Home Selling Tips From Keenan and Kemper: And some DECA Closing Gift Ideas!

Keenan and Kemper giving The Cascade Team Real Estate some tips for selling homes over the holidays and also selling some DECA items as closing gifts for their marketing class! Ordering deadline is October 20th and items will be delivered by December 2nd and 3rd.

If you are interested please follow this link and select either Keenan Porter or Kemper Jolly so they get credit in their Marketing Class at school for the sales.

www.eastsidecatholic.org/DECA

1. People who look at your home over the holidays are serious buyers.
2. Serious buyers have fewer homes to choose from over the holidays as most sellers take their homes off the market. That means less competition for you and more money for you.
3. Since the supply of homes will…

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