Sequim MLS on your iPod – Now you can search the Sequim MLS on your iPod.  For all you passionate iPod Phone and iPod Touch fans in the virtual iPod world, you can now search the entire Sequim MLS and Port Angeles MLS with your iPod.  Here’s how easy it is.

From your iPod go to Apps and search for “IDX” without the quotes.   Download the app called “myAgent by IDX” (by IDX, Inc.).  When you load it you will be asked for a Sequim code.  The code is “3523″ and once you type it in you won’t ever have to type it in again.

Load the app, type in the Sequim code of 3523, and you are looking at a nice map showing all the Sequim MLS listings and the Port Angeles MLS listings.  You simply drag the map across the screen to move around to the neighborhood you want.

To narrow your search for the perfect home, simply click on “Filter” at the bottom right, and you can select a price range, number of bedrooms, bathrooms, and square footage.

Once you pull up a screen with some listings represented as little red houses, you can touch a house and it opens up with the price and address.  Touch the little blue arrow, and you get the full listing with all the photos and details.

Come on, admit it:  This is so cool!

Search the Sequim MLS on your iPod, another powerful and absolutely free service courtesy of Chuck Marunde, your favorite Sequim Buyer’s Agent.

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Water view lots in Sequim and Port Angeles are plentiful.   Since we are on the Olympic Peninsula, we are, of course, surrounded by water.   We have views of the John Wayne Marina, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the International waters looking toward beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.   To our immediate south we have the stunning backdrop of the Olympic Mountains.

So does that mean you can easily find a gorgeous lot to build your retirement home and have a stunning water view?   First, it’s not easy to find the ideal lot for your home.   There are many lots, but some of them require a four wheel drive to reach, and that simply is not for everyone.   Second, price is a factor.   The greater the water view, the greater the price.   That probably doesn’t surprise you.   Here’s what a recent client of mine from California learned as he scoured the Internet prior to arriving and as he and I walked lots.

There are many lots with great water views, but few that were ideal for him and his wife.   The first lots we looked at were high in elevation, so they did have great views, but the roads to them and the driveways to the building sites were extremely steep, far too steep for his wife who might drive to the grocery store herself on one of those rare days when we have lots of snow.

The next lots we looked at are in a well known development with great water views, but the lots are small, the prices big, and many of the lots had tons of fill, which means the excavation costs and additional concrete support will substantially increase the cost of building a home.

We did find two lots adacent to each other that were within the ball park on price, under $100,000, but the water view is very slim.   These lots also had a valley and mountain view, so they are great lots, but the water view is minimal.

Stepping up to $200,000, we suddenly open up another level of water views, substantially better in fact.   But this raises the price of lot and building by a hundred thousand dollars, not something everyone will be able or willing to do.

On the lowest end of lot prices, we do find lots under $60,000, but these are small lots without water views, and often with other less favorable features, such as a less attractive location or close to Highway 101 and the traffic noise.

The challenge if you are doing a search on the Internet from out of state is that many agents don’t provide lots of excellent photos of lots, and even if you do have photos of a water view, photos can’t possibly do justice to the view, so you can’t really see what it would really be like.

To search for lots in Sequim or Port Angeles, here’s a great site:

Search Sequim MLS and Port Angeles MLS for Lots

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I believe the best Sequim MLS and Port Angeles MLS site where you can search all the local real estate listings is one I had programmed specifically with buyers in mind.   The reason this unique is because you can search the entire Olympic Listing Service and the entire Northwest Multiple Listing Service easily from this page.

If you didn’t know, we have two MLS’s here in Clallam County, so our listings are bifurcated.   Well, theoretically 100% of our listings are in the OLS, and from my statistical analysis, about 67% of the listings are also in the NWMLS.   The reason this is so important to buyers is that they could be searching an aent’s website that only pulls in listings from the NWMLS, which means you will be looking at all of their listings but not all of the listings available here.   If you have been reading my articles, you’ll already know that I am very consumer-centric, and I don’t like consumers not getting what they expect to get.   Some agents might prefer you only see their own listings, so they can double up on the commission.   That’s not the way consumers (buyers) ought to be treated.   I’m a member of both systems, so I had my programmer set this page up so you could search both MLS’s here.

Search the Sequim MLS and
Port Angeles MLS in the OLS and NWMLS

Notice the pull down menu near the top of the search section in the middle.   You can select either Olympic MLS or Nowthwest MLS.

Working hard night and day to provide buyers like you with the tools you need to do powerful searches on the Internet without me or anyone else getting in your face.   If you have any questions, you know how to reach me:   chuckmarunde@gmail.com or 360-775-5424.

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How about that Sequim MLS?  Sequim and Port Angeles are currently stuck with two multiple listing services (MLS). The Olympic Listing Service (OLS) has 100% of all local MLS listings in it, which is to say that all Sequim and Port Angeles agents are members of the OLS.

Sequim MLS System

The second MLS is the Northwest Multiple Listing Service (NWMLS), and it has been the primary MLS for King and Pierce Counties and many other counties for years. As shown in the graph, a smaller percentage of local agents are also members of the NWMLS.

Searching the Sequim MLS?

When buyers are searching the Sequim MLS or the OLS, which system do they use? That depends on the site they are using to search the MLS. If they are using a site with the NWMLS IDX data feed, they are not seeing all of the listings for sale here. If they are using a site with the OLS IDX data feed, they are seeing 100% of the listings. But buyers may not know this as they are doing their search. Online MLS searches that rely upon the NWMLS always have this logo by each listing.

Buyers should make sure they are using an MLS search that includes 100% of the local listings, not just the estimated 67% of local listings in the NWMLS. [There's much more technical analysis involved in comparing the two systems, because they use different fields and compile their data in different search and reporting methods.]

I am a member of both services, although not long ago I felt that being a member of the NWMLS made no sense. Why be a member of a second MLS, pay additional monthly dues (not to mention a $500 sign-up fee for a broker), and have to input all my listings twice, when only the OLS has all of the listings in it? When I do a comparable market analysis (CMA) to arrive at fair market value, it must be done only in the OLS, because it would be incomplete in the NWMLS. Market reports using only the NWMLS would be incomplete for this market.

I finally decided to be a member of both so I could give my clients the greatest possible exposure for their listings, and so I could reach as many possible buyers on the Internet as I could. In addition, it seems clear to me that the future of the Sequim MLS is the NWMLS. I will be glad when we are all on one MLS system.

As a practical matter, even though the NWMLS does not include all the local listings, the NWMLS is far superior to the OLS as software and much more powerful. It has much greater usefulness to agents and much more back office support, including a full time attorney.

For clients who want to search 100% of the listings available, I suggest using my Sequim MLS search (it is also the Port Angeles MLS), which does include 100% of all available homes for sale listed by all agents in Sequim and Port Angeles. Search the entire Sequim MLS and Port Angeles MLS.

[For-Sale-By-Owners (FSBOs) are in neither MLS, and the majority of potential buyers are not searching the private FSBO sites, which means FSBOs are left out of the loop almost entirely for buyers.   FSBOs are completely left out of the massive number of searches that are done through these MLS data feeds on hundreds of websites that host the IDS data feeds.   These data feeds are not only on almost every agent's website, they are also pulled into all the major real estate classified services and real estate portals, such as Realtor.com and Trulia.com.   Sellers do not generally understand all of the back office technical and Internet marketing issues involved.   There is much more to getting a home effectively marketed on the Internet than most people realize.   Even real estate agents are not necessarily adept at explaining these issues to FSBOs.]

Sequim MLS made easy.

Search the Sequim MLS and the Port Angeles MLS directly from this real estate blog.

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Search the entire Sequim MLS or Port Angeles MLS.   No money has been spared to give you the most advanced cutting edge MLS search tool, so you can search all the homes for sale in the entire MLS in Sequim and Port Angeles.   You can also search for vacant land.

You can narrow your focus by city, or even areas within and around Sequim and Port Angeles, and you can get as specific as you want with your parameters (bedrooms, square footage, etc.).   Once you get a list of results, just view the details for a full listing sheet with photos, too.

And I also added a map feature, so you can see where each property is located.   Just click on the image below to start your search now.   Notice that I have not required that you register your name and email.   Of course, if you find this useful, I would love the privilege of being your buyer’s agent.

Sequim real estate and Port Angeles real estate found here.

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You can search the Sequim MLS and the Port Angeles MLS with a really cool map search at:

Search Entire Sequim MLS

This is a great feature, because you can instantly see on the map where the listings are located, and you simply click on any that catch your interest, and the page opens to more photos and detailed information. Of course, you can also search by MLS# or by price and the number of bedrooms and bathrooms, acreage and so on.

Courtesy of Chuck Marunde and Sequim & Port Angeles Real Estate, LLC.

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