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The real estate market has been moving in a positive direction, the first real signs of recovery on both a national and local level. The Sequim real estate market and the Port Angeles real estate market are up. Whether this is a short term bump or a long term bump is anyone’s guess, but there [...]
Tyler Conkle, Sequim Home Inspector
While a home inspection is not required by law in Washington, it certainly is wise for a buyer to hire a home inspector to examine the home and discover any possible major problems that may effect their desire to complete the purchase.
While most people get that, there are some major misunderstandings [...]
Buying the ideal home in Sequim is not quite as simple as many people think. Sure, you spend some time searching the Sequim MLS and filter through the huge inventory of homes for sale, and then you drive around alone or with your Realtor and narrow it down some more, but there’s a dirty little [...]
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In the early 1960’s a loaf of bread was 35 cents, a dozen eggs 50 cents, a gallon of milk 75 cents, and a postage stamp was only 5 cents. A 30 year fixed rate mortgage was in the 5% range. Today that same mortgage interest rate is 4.78%, the lowest it [...]
Today we ask a real estate agent who has been through 30 years of market ups and downs, a real estate attorney of 20 years, and an advisor to real estate investors for two decades this question, “If you were advising a buyer thinking about buying a home in this market today, what would be [...]
Sequim homes for rent and Port Angeles homes for rent: how to find a rental on the Internet.
There are four primary Internet resources that you can use to search for rental homes:
1. Action Properties (Rental Management Company)
2. Landmark (Rental Management Company)
3. The Peninsula Daily Homes for Rent
4. The Sequim Gazette [...]
The largest local home builder in Sequim and Port Angeles since 1981 is Anderson Homes, LLC. Rick Anderson, the founder of Anderson Homes, has built over 400 homes since 1981 in the Sequim and Port Angeles areas. I personally interviewed many of his past clients now living in their custom homes, and I’ve never seen [...]
Sequim home sales for the first two months of 2009 [1. Does not count any transactions that may be recorded in the afternoon of the last day in February] reveal a little of what is happening in the real estate market. According to data from the Olympic Listing Service, 22 homes sold in Sequim in [...]
Buyers are cherry picking the best houses in this market, and that means the best houses in the best neighborhoods are selling now. I know this, because I just sold two.
There is a lot of talk and much in the press about the large inventories out there. There are more houses on the [...]
Did you know you could purchase a lot or vacant land that cannot produce drinking water? Did you know that you could purchase a home with a private well that dries up part of the year, or has a low water flow? Imagine having to haul drinking water and having to install a storage tank [...]
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