Is Zillow a Good MLS?

First, Zillow is not an MLS (multiple listing service). Zillow syndicates listings from hundreds of local MLSs around the country, and the way they make money is by selling advertising space to real estate agents. Their primary client is the real estate agent, not you the buyer, and not the sellers either. They make their

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Are Zillow Zestimates Accurate?

Are Zillow Zestimates accurate or inaccurate, or somewhere in between? This is a big question all across the United States, and it’s a hot topic. Some homeowners are downright angry at how Zillow Zestimates have underestimated the value of their home while they are trying to sell it. Some buyers came to rely on Zillow

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Sequim Homes on Zillow

Zillow homes in Sequim can be viewed online, including homes sold. You can even enlarge a Zillow map of homes sold and open specific homes to see the history, the sales price, the photos, and more. Here is a Zillow map of homes sold by Chuck Marunde. Click on the map to go to the

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Zillow or Trulia or Sequim-Homes.com

Zillow or Trulia are used by millions of buyers around the U.S. to shop for homes, and many buyers are using Zillow or Trulia to look at homes in the Sequim and Port Angeles area, too. I’ve spent many years using both Zillow or Trulia and many other online MLS sites, including dozens of MLS syndication sites.

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Zillow Acquires Trulia – What Does it Mean for Buyers?

Zillow is buying Trulia, so what does this mean for buyers like you? First, if you don’t know already, in the real estate industry the two elephants in the room have been Zillow and Trulia. Millions of buyers search these two sites for their homes and land. But when one elephant acquires the other, what does

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Find a Home

How to Find a Home: Do Not Rely On Zillow, Craigslist, Trulia, and Real Estate Portals

This article is about how to find a home, or how not to find a home. If you are a buyer scouring Internet sites to look at homes in Sequim, and if you are smart and doing your due diligence on values and other data available on a home, let me share some inside Sequim

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Does Zillow Have Bad Data?

Does Zillow have bad data? Many buyers around the country are using the Zillow site to search for listings and look at Zestimates on properties. As an insider in the real estate industry for 37 years, I have seen just about every gimmick and and many good and bad marketing strategies. Buyers and all consumers

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Chuck Marunde

Sequim Real Estate Videos Organized in an EBook

Sequim Real Estate Videos is Chuck Marunde’s latest book, and it’s packed full of incredible Sequim videos and real estate videos answering buyer’s questions about living in Sequim. You’ll also get lots of questions answered if you trying to decide if the Sequim area is your ideal retirement location. And because Chuck has been in

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Sequim Home

The Six Steps to Finding Your Sequim Home

Is it possible to find the perfect Sequim home with a water view ready to move into? This almost sounds too good to be true, but it isn’t, and this is another true story with a few bumps along the way and with a happy ending. It is possible to find a gorgeous water view

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Best MLS

The Best MLS: The Northwest MLS and the Olympic MLS

What is the best MLS for the Sequim, WA area? This has been a hot topic among real estate brokers for at least a decade, and the big battle has been between two MLSs, the Northwest MLS, known as the NWMLS, and the Olympic Listing Service, known as the OLS. Which system is the best

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Real Estate Books

Real Estate Books

Is it true there are Sequim real estate books that can help me learn more about Sequim and more about finding and buying a home in Sequim, WA? Where would I find such books, and who in the world would write such books? There are several excellent Sequim real estate books written specifically for buyers

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Sequim Real Estate

Sequim Real Estate: How do I find a Home in Sequim

Sequim real estate is hot, and has been the target of retirees from around the United States for years and even decades. But if you’re retired or planning to retire, and you’re looking at Sequim homes online, you may be asking, “How do I find a home in Sequim?” I will tell you exactly how

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Sequim MLS

New Sequim MLS App for Smartphones and Tablets

There’s a new Sequim MLS App that works nicely on desktops, tablets, and smartphones, and it was designed especially for buyers.  This app and the desktop version are yours at no cost, and you’ll get full access to both Sequim MLSs, including the Northwest MLS (NWMLS) and the Olympic Listing Service (OLS). You can still

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Sequim Water View is Stunning and Pending

This Sequim water view is just stunning from the main deck and from the master bedroom deck upstairs, too. We live on the gorgeous Olympic Peninsula in the great Northwest only two hours west of Seattle. While we are surrounded by water on a “peninsula,” finding a stunning Sequim water view is not easy. The

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Sequim Buyers Agent

How Can a Buyer Find a Home in Sequim?

How can a buyer find a home in Sequim? This is a loaded question, and I get some great questions from retirees around the United States who are searching for that perfect place to spend the rest of their lives. Thousands of people are doing online research on Sequim every month, and every single day,

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Sequim MLS Update on Sequim-Homes.com

The best Sequim MLS site has just been upgraded to make it more powerful and easier to use, although it was already the best Sequim MLS site for buyers who are searching the Sequim MLS from all over the country. Here’s the good news for you if you are searching online for your home in

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Find Your Home

How to Find Your Home in Sequim

How do you Find Your Home in Sequim? If you’re a buyer in a state other than Washington, and you’re looking at Sequim as your retirement destination, you probably could use a checklist that will help you find your ideal retirement home. Guess what? I have your checklist. What’s my credibility in offering you a

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How Do I Search Online?

Searching online for your home is no small task, but I want to share a few brief tips here. Don’t think for a moment that Zillow is accurate and that you can rely on the data or the Zestimate. Sometimes they get it right, but a broken watch is right twice a day, too. I

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How to Search Online For A Buyer’s Agent

This is a good question, but believe it or not few people ask it, and fewer still know how to do online research in this day of fake news, exaggerated claims, sales gimmicks, and outright misrepresentations. It really takes a great deal of skill to know how what phrases to search, how to use the

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Buyer Timeline

The Buyer Timeline

Understanding the buyer timeline and what is involved in buying a home is important, and there are many details that are critical in order to protect yourself and get to closing safely. There are only about 1,000 things that can go wrong. Lawyers make their living based on things that go wrong. I wrote an

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