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Have you found the house of your dreams yet? If you've found a property you love, you now need to decide how much you're willing to offer. You want to be conservative enough that you get a good deal, but you don't want to bid so low that you risk losing the house. The following are some questions that need to be answered prior to making an offer:

  • How long has the house been on the market? The longer it's been on the market, the more flexible the sellers are likely to be.
  • How much are people paying for similar properties in the area?
  • How much can you afford?
  • Are you pre-approved for a loan? If so, you will be very attractive to sellers, and you'll have more room to negotiate.
  • How badly do you want this sale to go through?
  • See more…

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Sixty-nine percent of consumers recently admitting to having a “home crush”—a property they liked so much they were drawn back to looking at it more than once online or in person, according to a new realtor.com® survey of 1,000 consumers. But men and women respond quite differently to these crushes, according to the survey.

For example, the survey found that women are more likely than men to have a crush on a home that was out of their financial league. Forty-one percent of women revealed their home crush is out of their price range, compared to only 30 percent of men who said the same.

Men were more likely than women to move from one home crush to another. Thirty-six percent of men surveyed say they find a new house crush weekly, compared to…

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KIRKLAND, Washington (Feb. 5, 2015) – Home sales this super bowl season outpaced a year ago as sidelined buyers emerged to compete for limited inventory, according to brokers who commented on January activity.

  • Home Sales reach all time high for January
  • Inventory levels at 22 year low
  • Prices already up 8.7%

 New figures from Northwest Multiple Listing Service show year-over-year increases in pending sales, closed sales, and prices, while inventory fell by double digits.

 

"The current inventory of homes available for sale has never been lower in my 22 years as a real estate broker," lamented MLS director George Moorhead, designated broker and owner at Bentley Properties.

 

The number of active listings of single family…

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See Our Recent Postcard? Here Are The Answers!

Q 1: How Much did the average Trossachs home value increase in 2014?

A: The Average Trossachs Home increased by 8.5% last year. Meaning a home that was worth $700,000 in January 2014 was selling for $759,500 by then end on the year. A “Net” increase of almost $60,000 for a $700,000 home.

Q 2: What is the price per square foot difference between new construction and resale homes?

A: Currently in Trossachs the average New Construction home is selling$248.26 per sq ft. The average size is 3,929 sq ft and is closing for $992,551

Resale homes are selling at $236.81 per sq ft. The average resale home was 3,261 sq ft and closed for $769,039.

Q 3: What is the price per square foot difference…

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The number of single family homes on the market in Sammamish is pretty much static when compared to a year ago. Statistics from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service for March report 637 active single family home listings compared to 653 a year ago. Pending sales, or homes with deals inked last month, were down almost 25 percent from 2010, with 160 homes going under contract. However,the median sales price of $509,990 is up 4.51 percent from last year's $488,000. "There's a couple of factors at play," said Scott Bobson, broker/owner of Sammamish Realty. "There's a lot more buyer confidence, and we're seeing the upper end really start moving which is moving the median price…

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