Here’s a rare 4.25 acre lot with a creek running through it, the quiet and peace of the country while being close to town and minutes from Port Angeles High School.   Here’s a peek of this extraordinary setting in this video, and for more detailed information, view this data sheet with photos:   Port Angeles Land for Sale with a Creek Running Through It.

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Port Angeles real estate is personified in this gorgeous custom home built on a one acre parcel that is available.

Port Angeles Real Estate for Sale:

Extraordinary custom home, living room with three-sided propane fireplace, vaulted ceiling, formal dining room has oak flooring, vaulted ceiling and French doors to back deck. Gourmet kitchen with designer lighting, custom cabinets and appliances. Master suite with bath featuring heated floor and Jacuzzi tub. Separate shower with heated floor and double shower heads. Library has built-in shelves and pocket doors.

See the full listing data sheet with photos:   Port Angeles Real Estate for Sale

There are nice homes for sale in the Port Angeles area, and then there are your ultimate custom homes built not by framers who became general contractors, but homes built by artists who love their work and cannot compromise quality if they wanted to.  It’s simply not in their genetic code.

Port Angeles Real Estate Video

Want a preview of this Port Angeles home for sale?   Here’s a little video for your viewing pleasure.

Port Angeles real estate in the current market is one of the best values for your dollar on the entire Olympic Peninsula.

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It’s spring in Port Angeles, and sunny and beautiful at water level, but up in the mountains there was a last hurrah of snow that is glistening in the sun and   is giving us a stunning view from downtown Port Angeles.   This photo was taken from Mount Pleasant Road several miles on the southern side of Port Angeles and a thousand feet or so above sea level.   Little photographs can’t quite catch the majesty of the real view, but you can use your imagination.

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Port Angeles homes are selling even with the market down from last year, but something interesting is happening.   Actually, two things.

First, even though the inventory is higher, the buyers here are cherry picking the best homes.   That means the competition is keener than you might think for the top 10% of the homes on the market, the kind that most people really want.   These homes are selling and gone from the inventory.

Second, the price of some homes is very negotiable, and the price of other homes is not very negotiable.   This second point requires an explanation.   In almost 30 years in the real estate business, I’ve never seen such elasticity in the listing prices and selling prices of homes.   An example will probably help explain what I mean.

One house is for sale for $284,500, already down substantially from the original listing price over a year earlier.   A buyer makes an offer of $260,000, which is $24,500 less than the listed price.   While that might not sound like a huge discounted offer at 8.6% below the current listed price, when you take into consideration that the original listed price was much higher, this is a pretty serious hit for a seller to take in this market.

The offer was accepted at $260,000, and the buyer proceeded with his due diligence, which included the home inspection, the community septic inspection, and the well inspection.   During the home inspection it was discovered that the back concrete patio was settling, most likely because the subsurface had not been properly compacted.   The concrete was cracking in several places, and the settling was resulting in water draining toward the crawl space under the house at one corner.   The pest inspection showed some indication of moisture ants under the house at that location.

After further volleys, the seller agreed to further reduce the price by $9,000 because of the concrete patio problems, so the final price at closing was $251,000.   (There is so much more to negotiating than most people realize, and a lot of effective tricks in the trade for the experienced professional.)

This 2005 home is a custom built, 1900 square foot home with a large double car garage.   It is a very nice custom home and definitely above the average stick-built home.   The home was a steal at $251,000.   This buyer won the lottery, even considering the present state of the market.   I know all this because I represented the buyer as the buyer’s agent.   The photo above is the home.     It was owned by a relocation company, which bought it from their employee who was transferred across the country.   The price of this home was negotiable.

The price of other homes may not be so negotiable.   Not all sellers are either desperate to sell or need to.   Many sellers would like to sell, but they can hang onto their home for a year or more if they don’t sell it.   These homes, and there are many, are not so negotiable on price or terms.

So we have a real estate market that is essentially bifurcated.   There is a segment of the market that is normal with supply and demand playing out, but with normal buyers and with sellers that are not desperate or under financial pressure to sell.   Then there is another segment of the market that is full of foreclosures, distressed properties, and sellers who must sell sooner rather than later.   The chaos that results in the market creates a segmented market where one house is dramatically effected by the economic forces to drive the price lower, but the house across the street may not be effected at all by the same variables.

If you are qualified to buy, and that is your intention, don’t ignore the first factor I mentioned.   Buyers are cherry picking the best homes right now, so the home you would consider ideal may be sold before you make a decision.

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Port Angeles News Bulletin!

Port Angeles business owners have a whole new forum and an incredible free service offered on PortAngelesVision.com.   Following is the full article reprinted with permission.

This blog [PortAngelesVision.com] is devoted to the vision and future of Port Angeles and our mutual success as business owners. We will start (or continue) a dialogue on this subject, brainstorm here, argue (diplomatically), and share information.

But there is much more to the benefits to Port Angeles business owners, and today we reveal one of those benefits to participation. When you as a Port Angeles business owner post three (3) comments on this site, you will be entitled to a very nice profile of your business and what you offer customers with a photograph of your business or products. You will also get a link back to your own website if you have one, and your location and contact information. But . . .

This is much more than just a simple advertisement of your business. This is a nice description of your business with good graphics and good script describing your business and your product so people will want to do business with you.   And this profile is not limited to 10 or 30 words.   If you need several hundred words to describe your business, no problem.   Your profile will also be optimized for the search engines by an expert, so you can be found by people using the Internet. In addition, you will be indexed by category on this blog so people, both local and outside our area, can find you and do business with you.   Right now many of us who do business in Port Angeles don’t even know each other. We are missing opportunities to do business with each other right now.   You’ll also notice that all of our blog posts have an audio version, so those with a vision impairment will still be able to hear about you.   Our audio is also syndicated as a podcast, which is only the tip of the iceberg on how we promote this site behind the scenes.

By the way, before anyone gets all defensive on me, let me be clear about the cost to you: absolutely nothing. This is a service to local businesses, and what we are doing here is free. I know, I was taught in my college economics course by Dr. Orth that, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Well, he was wrong. There is such a thing as a free blog that has an honorable goal and offers you something you would have to pay thousands of dollars to get elsewhere.

An expert will help you at no cost to write your profile persuasively, and our tech expert will optimize your business information, also at no cost to you.

So, be sure to come back and when you have a relevant comment, register and post your comment. When you have three comments, email me your basic business profile with your photo, and I’ll work with you to perfect it. Then we can always tweak it to get you more traffic. As this site gets more traffic, you will get more exposure. Let’s work together to make it happen. Post your thoughts, and email three friends with a link to this site.   The more visitors this site gets, the more exposure your business gets.

To take advantage of this service, go to PortAngelesVision.com.

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