Selling Your Olympia WA Home – Your 3-Step Plan

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This overview for how to sell your home will cover: Giving You the Best Outcome How to Attract Buyers What I Do for You as Your Listing Broker My Background in Real Estate Giving You the Best Outcome There are a range of outcomes you can have when selling your home, and part of that …

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Selling Your Olympia WA Home – Overview of How Showings Work

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The following showing protocols are in response to COVID-19 and the Governor’s Orders for how real estate can be conducted during the stay-at-home order. However, you may choose to keep these practices in place when the Order is lifted to keep you and your home healthy when your home is being shown. Steps to a …

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Home Buyer Guide – the Ultimate Playbook

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Buyers need to make big decisions in a very short amount of time.  Being prepared and understanding the process will save you money, time, and stress.  Review this Home Buyer Guide and become a rock star home buyer! Here is the Table of Contents of what will be covered: PREPARING FOR YOUR HOME PURCHASE Get …

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E-Notarization now allowed in Washington State

At the end of March 2020, Washington State’s Governor Inslee signed an emergency proclamation allowing e-notarizations.  Our Washington REALTORS® and other organizations worked to accelerate this order, which was already planned to be in place by October 1st of this year, but was moved up to now due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the current …

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4204 Abigail Dr NE, Lacey, WA for sale

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This 4-bedroom home on a large corner lot is now for sale in the Campus Highlands area of Lacey, WA. Click here for all the details. One of the unique features of this lot is the huge driveway to the 3-car garage, which offers plenty of parking. The Campus Highlands location in Lacey, WA is …

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FAQ for Olympia WA Sellers – Is the First Offer the Best Offer?

The Olympia WA (in Thurston County) January 2020 real estate marketplace is deep in a seller’s market.  With the low inventory and fewer choices for buyers, many sellers are seeing multiple offers and are receiving offers within hours of listing.  Most offers are over the asking price when buyers are bidding on a property.  But …

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Olympia WA January 2020 Real Estate Market Update – Deepest Sellers’ Market To Date

January 2020 is starting out as the most robust seller’s real estate market we have seen in Olympia, WA in Thurston County. There are currently less than 250 active listings for sale (a balanced market is about 1,200+ listings countywide). Thurston County is in the longest stretch of time in a sellers’ market (63 months …

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Olympia WA Home Sellers See Relief in Sales Tax in 2020

RATES have been REVISED effective January 1, 2023 Original post follows below: Starting January 1, 2020, many home sellers in Thurston County, WA will see relief in their Real Estate Excise Tax (REET) that they pay to the state of Washington when they sell their home. In the past, most areas in Thurston County were …

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Is it too late for me to list my Olympia WA home?

Many homeowners who are considering selling their Olympia WA home are looking at the calendar, seeing the school buses back on the roads, sipping their pumpkin spiced lattes and are wondering if they missed the summer real estate market.  Put shortly, the answer is no.  And here’s why the 2019 fall and winter real estate …

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Housing in 2019 is more affordable than last year in Olympia WA

Buyers in Thurston County, WA (which include Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater and Yelm) are seeing higher home prices but are enjoying near-historic low interest rates, making homes more affordable now than last year at this time. The average home price in Thurston County, WA is $371,323, up 4 percent from last year. But because interest rates …

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