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Home Shortage in Sequim

by Chuck Marunde / Saturday, 13 July 2019 / Published in Sequim Homes For Sale

Is there a home shortage in Sequim? Yes. If you’re buyer shopping for a home in the Sequim area, you know this. Many buyers are looking on the Sequim MLS every day, but the inventory is so low, they can’t find what they want within their budget.

The Home Shortage in Sequim

For example, I’m on hunt for a home for a client, and he and his wife have very specific parameters, but not unusual parameters. They want what so many other retirees want–a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, single level home,  a minimum of 1700 square feet, on a somewhat private lot which typically means an acre in Sequim. The vast majority of retirees moving to Sequim are not at all interested living in a subdivision where homes are packed onto postage sized lots where you look out your kitchen window and waive at your neighbor who is also at their kitchen window only 10 feet away. Yes, I know, some retirees are buying those homes, but who are those people and why on earth are they moving to Sequim? LOL. Sorry, but this is called real estate humor. I know, I need to get a life.

Yesterday I searched for homes based on my buyer’s parameters, and within their budget of $400,000 to $450,000, only two homes are currently listed. That’s just nuts. The home shortage is real. One of the homes was so bad I wouldn’t show it to my dog, and the other one is on one of the busiest roads in the country. Far too noisy.

I stretched his price parameters by a little to the upside ($20,000), and we did find two homes to look at, but one of them was just weird. It had an odd floor plan and was very dark inside with very little natural light, and the master bedroom had two walk-in closets with a makeup room in one of them and there was a separate room off the master bedroom which we could not figure out.

Be sure to learn how to search for active only listing that are not pending. You’ll find a series of videos on how to do this on my video sites, which you can access at the top of the Sequim-Homes.com MLS site. 

Your Buyer’s Agent in a Home Shortage

If you retain me as your buyer’s agent, I’ll help you through this whole process, and I’ll preview homes for you if you are outside the Sequim area. I’ll help you filter through active listings, and I’ll help you move once the ideal home comes on the market. This is what I do, and I would love to help you navigate this market and the traps for the unway, even in this market with the crazy home shortage. 

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About Chuck Marunde

After practicing real estate law for 20 years in Washington, Chuck opened iRealty Virtual Brokers covering the Sequim and the beautiful Olympic Peninsula. Chuck is the author of numerous magazine and Internet articles with a primary focus on real estate. He is also the author of over a dozen books, mostly about Sequim real estate. Chuck is a photographer, videographer, and Registered FAA Drone Pilot. Chuck has combined his love for real estate and technology to create a growing Internet presence in his market, and enjoys building his websites and blogs, including SequimBlog.com and Sequim4Sale.com and LuxuryWaterViewHomes.com. Chuck has degrees in Economics, Law, and Education.

1 Comment to “ Home Shortage in Sequim”

  1. Charlie says :Reply
    July 19, 2019 at 4:19 pm

    Greetings Chuck – You made reference on an earlier post to a ‘community well agreement ‘ which I’d like to see – any chance you can share this again? thank you
    PS Sequim is a beautiful place!

    Charlie: I used to have a site with hundreds of forms and checklists for real estate when I practiced law, but I no longer maintain that site. Forms change over time as litigation requires changes, and if I put a form as important as a community well agreement that is outdated on the Internet, or even if it is up to date, people will tend to copy it and use it even though it may need customizing for their specific purpose, and to use the wrong language in a form as important as one affecting real estate could be a legal nightmare later.

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We do our homework for the task at hand and we look for and expect to enlist partners that do the same. It was our good fortune to select Chuck Marunde of Sequim and Port Angeles Real Estate to represent us as a buyer's broker in our search for a home in the Sequim/Port Angeles area. Chuck's site is all encompassing and super fast compared to many others, he knows the market at every conceivable level and his guidance through the process of selecting and purchasing a home is priceless - above and beyond that of anyone with whom we have ever worked. Add to all this his 20 year background in real estate law and you have discovered a superb asset in the adventure of purchasing a home. Greg and Marilyn

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