What Home Buyers Can Expect From Sellers

When home Buyers are looking for a home (or land) they spend a lot of time searching the online MLS and filtering properties (100’s) and comparing prices. Buyers have a maximum budget for their purchase, and they have some firm ideas about what they would consider the ideal location, an acceptable view, a good floor

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Sequim Map Search

You can do a Sequim map search for your retirement home with this interactive map.  This map will show all listings from $225,000 and up in the Sequim area starting north of Sequim in one of our most beautiful areas near the center of the actual Sequim Blue Hole.  [You can adjust your own price

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The Perfect Sequim Home for Sale

The perfect Sequim home for sale will will vary for buyers, but here’s a description of one notion of the perfect Sequim home as defined by a very large percentage of retirees who move to Sequim. Sequim Home for Sale Perfect Floor Plan This home is in a quiet little subdivision on the outskirts of

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How to Search Sequim MLS Listings: 3 Easy Steps

How do you search the Sequim MLS listings?  Have you been using the Windermere MLS site, the John L. Scott MLS site, or have you been using Trulia or Realtor.com?  I’ve lived in Sequim for 18 years, and years ago I had a very special Sequim MLS listings site programmed specifically for buyers, and I

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Sequim Homes for Sale

There are some fine Sequim homes for sale, but retirees moving to Sequim are finding that the inventory of fine homes in nice areas are getting harder to find.  [I just realized I used the words fine and find twice each in that last sentence!  That’s not easy to do unintentionally.]  Sequim Homes for Sale

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Sequim Home with a Barn

Imagine a Sequim home with a barn and shop, which is also a Sequim horse property, which also has a separate guest house, which is also in a very quiet area, which is also very close to town, which is within a short walk of the Discovery Trail, and which is above John Wayne Marina with

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Many Sequim Homes Being Shown During the Holidays

Sequim homes are being shown and sold over this holiday season in a rainy and overcast November.  July and August and September were very busy.  I wrote about how Sequim Home Sales in September doubled last year’s September sales.  I wrote on September 24th, “I think it is fair to project November and December will

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Homes Are Selling Fast

Sequim homes are selling fast as are Port Angeles homes.  As I pointed out in an earlier article, home sales are up for July, August, and September of this year over last year by 29%, 66%, and 100%, respectively.  But don’t take my word for it.  If you are looking at homes online from California,

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Sequim Homes for Sale: Photo Misrepresentations

There are many Sequim homes for sale, and buyers from outside the area are using the MLS to look at these Sequim homes for sale, but there’s a recurring problem.  Buyers have been telling me literally for years that many of the homes they look at in the MLS either have incomplete photos or the

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Sequim Home on Acreage – Almost 10 Acres

This Sequim home on acreage is new on the market and most likely will sell very quickly.  Here’s why.  It is a house with everything retirees want on the main floor with additional rooms for family on the other level.  The home has one of the best valley and mountain views in all of Sequim. 

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Homes Selling Fast Suddenly

News Bulletin!  Are homes selling fast suddenly in Sequim and in Port Angeles?  Yes.  I’m not kidding.  I’ve been showing homes and land for years here, and since 2006 the market slowed and eventually entered this real estate recession.  The sale of lots and vacant land came to a screeching halt.  Very few people have

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A Day Looking at Homes in Sequim

Today was a day looking at homes in Sequim.  Two homes rose to the top of the blog list.  The first home has a lot of potential.  The back of the garage is hanging out over a creek.  Obviously, the garage will either need to be moved or torn down.  The county authorities don’t actually

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Sequim Estate Sale: How to Buy an Estate Sale Home

Buying a home at a Sequim estate sale is not at all like buying a home from a homeowner, which is not at all like buying a home in a short sale, which is not at all like buying a home at a foreclosure sale (Trustee’s Sale), which is not at all like buying a

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Sequim Homes for Sale Showcase

Our Sequim Homes for Sale Showcase is a new feature to help buyers get the most from their Sequim MLS home search.  Anyone who reads this blog knows that we are constantly working to give our clients more, more search capabilities, more online tools so they can do their due diligence, more valuable information to

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Things Sellers Aren’t Supposed to Say to Buyers

I show a lot of homes to buyers from outside the Sequim area.  Normally when I show a home, the sellers have left the premises.  Realtors have been taught for a long time at seminars to make sure their sellers don’t get a face-to-face with buyers.  They’re told that could be dangerous.  For example, there

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Buying Homes in Sequim This Week

Are people buying homes in Sequim right now?  Well, let me tell you a little bedtime story about three beautiful couples and their little bald Realtor.  Two couples are from the beautiful state of California.  The other couple  grew up in Port Angeles and now work in Moscow at the American Embassy. Buying Homes in

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Buyers Find Shortage of Ideal Sequim Homes for Sale

Could there possibly be a shortage of Sequim homes for sale? How could there be a shortage in this recession when everyone knows there is a glut of homes for sale and a lot of foreclosures on the market? How could I even broach the subject suggesting that there may be a shortage of Sequim

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How To Compare Homes

How does one compare homes when you’ve narrowed it down to similar homes in similar neighborhoods in the same price range?  When you’re ready to make an offer on a home, there is clearly some important filtering that you will do to arrive at that place.  Here are two homes that are similar in appearance,

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Sequim Homes for Sale Overpriced – By $100,000+

Are Sequim homes for sale overpriced?  Some are overpriced, but many are extraordinary deals.  I spent a couple of days showing out of town clients homes, and we had a great time.  Looking at homes is always fun for me, and helping clients find the perfect home is exciting.  Three of the homes on our

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Sequim Homes for Sale

You can search Sequim homes for sale with several powerful online tools I’ve created for you.  Here are a few, and if you click on the title with the hyperlink, it will take you to the resource where you can search free for Sequim homes for sale. Sequim MLS Search the Sequim MLS (multiple listing

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