As we close out the third quarter of 2019 in the Metro Denver area, the following is an overview of the housing market statistics year to date to see what's happening across the board regarding homes sales, average days on market, home selling prices and inventory. The graphic below shows a quick overview of the September 2019 stats. For more information, be sure to check out the video below. As a local Denver real estate brokerage, we are always here to help and answer any questions you may have about the market or what your home is worth. If you need some help or have a questions, you can email us at info@tctrealestate.com or call us at 720.600.2182. We'll have one of our no pressure local agents
Over the years many of us have come across this with buyers, so in light of the new commission changes I have reached out to many of our agents from here and across the country and locally here is the Seattle market for their best objections to buyers when they say: “I only want to work with the listing agent.”
The overwhelming number of responses lead us to a lot of good material, including simple explanations of what listing agents do, giving advice, one-liners and the all-powerful “good luck.”
Here are our favorite responses. Try out the ones you like the next time you come up against this objection.
Use a one-liner
Sometimes, all you need is a sentence or two to get the job done. Short, sweet and to the point, here are some of the
In an attempt to get ahead of looming outside forces, broker-owned multiple listing service Northwest MLS is changing its rules to allow the public display of buyer broker commissions, starting October 1.
The rule changes will allow the NWMLS’s 30,000 agent and broker members to publish the amount of commission the seller is offering a buyer’s broker on the subscribers’ websites along with other listing details.
“Making this information readily available to consumers will allow for complete transparency with regard to buyers’ broker’s compensation and provide consumers with additional information at the outset of the transaction,”
Where a lot of confusion came in was the fee paid to the Buyer’s agent. That money was traditionally always offered
Public Display of Agent Commissions Begins now on www.TheCascadeTeam.com
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In an attempt to get ahead of looming outside forces, broker-owned multiple listing service Northwest MLS is changing its rules to allow the public display of buyer broker commissions, starting October 1.
The rule changes will allow the NWMLS’s 30,000 agent and broker members to publish the amount of commission the seller is offering a buyer’s broker on the subscribers’ websites along with other listing details.
“Making this information readily available to consumers will allow for complete transparency with regard to buyers’ broker’s compensation and provide consumers with additional information at the outset of
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It’s not Malibu, Beverly Hills, or The Hamptons, but Sammamish that tops the 2018 census list of the richest city in the United States. While many people look at the median income in Seattle topping $93,000 and feel staggered by that number it was Sammamish, which had a median household income last year of a whopping $183,000, that ranks No. 1 among all the 630 cities for which the Census Bureau produced 2018 income data. It also marks the first time that a Washington city has come out on top for household income.
And not to be left behind, three additional eastside cities: (Redmond, Kirkland and Bellevue) also top Seattle!
See the income chart provided by The Seattle Times below:
Sellers Here's How to Prepare for a Home Inspection
Some good advice: Do not try to conceal any defects you know are in the home. The key here is to work together! All homes have some issues, none are perfect so buyers and their agents are prepared to purchase a home that may have some issues.
The home inspector may find any defects anyway, and you don't want to be breaking any laws or causing the process harm. After all, you want to sell your home, and someone wants to buy it!
Here are some ways to be ready for the inspection:
Keep your power on if you are listing your home vacant (the home inspector may need to check a few things that need power)
Check all your light bulbs and change any burnt out bulbs. This may cut down on time the
The residential real estate market has been plodding along for most of the year. However, three recent reports show the market may be on the verge of a rebound:
1. Existing Home Sales (closed sales) are up, marking two consecutive months of growth.
2. Pending Home Sales (contracts signed) are up with each of the four major regions reporting both month-over-month growth and year-over-year gains in contract activity. Here is the month-over-month growth:
The Northeast rose 0.7%
The Midwest increased 0.6%
The South increased 1.4%
The West grew 3.1%
3. Buyer Traffic (the number of people shopping for a home) is up compared to the same time last year, and for the first time in 13
Cluttered houses are inconvenient and aesthetically unpleasant. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways you can get a neat, clean, organized house that looks great and puts everything within reach. Here are five easy tips to clear the clutter and win back some elbow room.
Don't attempt too much at once. There are too many other demands on your time and at some point you will give up or be forced to give up. It is better to clean a little clutter every day for weeks than attempt a huge, failed one-time blitz.
Lessen the flow of items into your house. Clutter comes about from too many possessions; get less, and you control clutter easily. One good rule is to throw out something old every time you obtain something new. If clutter is severe,
Starting Oct. 1, it could start getting cheaper to buy a home around Seattle and most of Washington.
That’s because the curtain will be pulled away from a secret long kept within the community of real-estate agents: how much the agent representing the buyer collects when a house is sold. Brokerages in the Seattle-Tacoma area will be among the first in the nation to start publishing those fees, long kept hush-hush, on their online listings.
And while home sellers have been required to offer some kind of compensation to buyers’ agents in order to list a home, starting Tuesday, sellers won’t need to offer anything.
The changes here, enacted by the Northwest Multiple Listing Service (NWMLS) — the membership group
