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Your Home is your greatest investment! Know these questions and answers before you interview! The difference can cost you thousands!

1.  Do you provide a true website presence for my home? This is more than a splash site with a few pictures.  Click HERE for Answer!

2.  Do you syndicate my home, and PAY for premiere placement?  Click HERE for Answer!

3.  Do you advertise my home on Social Media: This is MORE than just Facebook!  Click HERE for Answer!

4.  Do you provide a full 3D Walkthrough Virtual Tour or just have shifting focus over still pictures and call that a virtual tour?  Click HERE for Answer!

5.  What is your strategy to generate multiple offers for my home?  Click HERE for Answer!

6.  Are you still using paper flyers…

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We are less than 2 weeks away from what the internet has called "mobilegeddon" which will happen on April 21st. 

What is Mobilegeddon? In a nutshell, Mobilegeddon is a new algorithm that is going to be applied to ALL Google indexed websites.

What does this algorithm do? This algorithm will evaluate and apply new ranking factors to your website based on how "mobile friendly" or "responsive" your website is. If you do not have a responsive website, it is estimated that you will LOSE ALL RANKINGS IN MOBILE SEARCH RESULTS!

Sorry for the bold caps, but this is REALLY IMPORTANT! Go take a look at your Google analytics right now, click on Audience, then mobile, then overview - take a look at how much of your traffic comes from mobile! 

We've…

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KIRKLAND, Washington (April 6, 2015) – Buyer anxiety is rising as the pace of home sales is faster than brokers are able to replenish inventory, according to members of Northwest Multiple Listing Service. Figures just released for March show 11,408 pending sales during the month while only 10,505 sellers listed their homes for sale during the same period.

"The frenzy market has returned and is in full bloom in King and Snohomish counties. Listings are selling as soon as they come on the market for sale," said J. Lennox Scott, chairman and CEO of John L. Scott Real Estate.

The multiple offer market has become commonplace on well-priced new listings, observed John Deely, principal managing broker at Coldwell Banker Bain. However, he cautioned,…

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The Responsive web design from www.TheCascadeTeam.com will resize and reformat page content in response to screen size and resolution. In short, our responsive website is one that looks good and performs well on traditional computers, tablets and smartphone. Its one size fits all – no separate mobile version required!

If you consider that many potential buyers may start their home search on their laptop and then switch to their smartphone throughout the course of the day, it’s only logical to make sure they have the same user-experience from one screen to the other. Having a separate mobile site – that usually has less content and different navigation – doesn’t make sense. Our responsive design performs the same across all devices and delivers a…

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Sammamish, Washington, is tops in income. Nerdwallet.com recently published a new study putting a whopping 73.7% of households in Sammamish at more than $100,000 per year. More than a quarter of the households top $200,000 per year.

In all, six suburbs in the Seattle metro area are in the top 100 including Mercer Island, Redmond, Bainbridge Island, Maple Valley and Mukilteo.

Click on the map below to get the high-income housing statistics.

See all of the updated Sammamish Market Stats Here!

Learn more about Sammamish Schools here:

Finding a neighborhood with great schools is one of the more important concerns when shopping for a home. You can click on the picture below to do some wonderful comparisons at the Great Schools…

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Search Online For The Perfect Home

Searching the world wide web to find that perfect home to buy has become really popular. Ninety percent of people today use the internet to search for their home. There are many ways to search the internet to find a home. You can use search engines or general websites. You can also use digital maps found online, or applications on your mobile device.

In the past four years there have been a two hundred and fifty three percent jump in real estate online searches. The average person will search eleven different searches before trying to purchase a home.

Mobile Influence

Mobile devices play a key role in internet real estate searching today. Twenty percent of all online searches are made from a mobile…

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Finding a neighborhood with great schools is one of the more important concerns when shopping for a home. You can click on the picture below to do some wonderful comparisons at the Great Schools website. Then by clicking HERE or on the Advanced Search tab one of the selections you can choose is to search by homes that are aligned with the school or schools of your choice be they High School, Middle, Elementary or some combination. Other detailed information available from our community reports includes nearby public amenities, shopping, demographics, and median household income.  




Have A Home To Sell Or Wonder What Your Home Is Worth?

Community & School Reports

The Cascade Team Real Estate has made it easier than ever to…

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Are you looking for more than just property listings? Would you like to learn about neighborhoods in the local real estate market? We have tons of great information about market conditions, nearby amenities, local schools, and much more in our communities section. Simply select the community or neighborhood you'd like to read more about, or call me for the inside scoop. I would be happy to share my knowledge of the area with you. Get a Free Community Report HERE:

The Cascade Team Real Estate has made it easier than ever to learn more about your local schools and neighborhood. The Cascade Team community and school reports are your local source for demographic and school district information. Compare local demographics, neighborhood amenities and…

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Smart home appliances and technology are becoming more mainstream in homes throughout the country. Products and features once reserved for only the highest priced properties are now found in homes across the United States at various price points. The proliferation of this technology is not only changing the way Americans live, it’s also changing their tastes and expectations when shopping for real estate—so much so that making your home “smart” may be smarter than you think.

A survey of more than 500 Real Estate Brokers found: 

• Buyers are asking, “How smart is this home?”: Nearly two in three (64 percent) of the sales associates surveyed agreed that buyers today are more interested in homes with smart home features and technology than they…

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