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The Cascade Team Real Estate has made it easier than ever to learn more about your local schools and neighborhood. The Cascade Team community and school reports are your local source for demographic and school district information. Compare local demographics, neighborhood amenities and…

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Dan Baldwin

  • Email:  Dan@TheCascadeTeam.com
  • Cell:  425.466.4692
  • Fax: 425.996.9523

We are happy to welcome Dan Baldwin to The Cascade Team! He will be joining our Main Issaquah office.

Real estate executive with thirty years in retail real estate development and “REO” asset management. Diverse background in all channels of fuel trade with two national brand retailers including Petroleum Marketing Practices Act “PMPA” franchise management, and Uniform Franchise Offering Circular “UFOC” accountability for convenience store sales. Experience includes 2 years of senior assisted-living development, plus 8 years of multi-unit chain franchise management, and 6 years as General Manager National Accounts, for a national moving and storage…

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Early Spring Brings Bumper Crop of Homebuyers Who Face Inventory Drought  

Brokers around the Northwest MLS service area are clamoring for listings:

  1.  "Hopefully, more potential sellers will seize this market window of opportunity as a good time to sell before the regional real estate market does finally start to level out and take a breath; which it will eventually." -- Gary O’Leyar, Berkshire Hathaway HomeService Signature Properties.
  2.  "We desperately need inventory. Potential sellers of all shapes, sizes, price ranges and locations should be contacting their brokers and jumping off the proverbial fence." -- Diedre Haines, Coldwell Banker Bain.
  3. ď‚· "Sellers haven’t experienced a market this favorable since those frothy days (of 10 years…

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3D Virtual Tour Showcase

The Cascade Team is happy to announce its new 3D Walkthrough Showcase and these very exciting new enhancements. 3D Walkthrough Showcase Tours are available for every Cascade Team listed property. We use Matterport's 3D technology and cloud service to create a one-of-a-kind 3D Virtual Tour Showcase.

Engage buyers. Delight sellers:

The Cascade Team 3D Showcase is the most realistic, immersive way to experience a property online.

Ultimate Experience: Any Time, Anywhere

The Cascade Team 3D Showcase™ is an online experience that lets home buyers move through a property and see it from any angle. Even get a completely unique sense for the place with our “dollhouse” view.

Real Emotion

Image galleries,…

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Prices are on the way up and homes are selling quickly with inventory down over 60% in many areas from Seattle to San Diego and Arizona. Sammamish, WA for example; has a 61% drop in inventory over the past year. While new homes are coming on the market daily and even greater number are getting offers and going Pending: meaning inventory of availiable homes still continued to shrink.

At The Cascade Team Real Estate our typical listings are on the market for an average of only 10 days, and nearly 60% are selling in 3 days or less with 42% of our listings receiving multiple offers and going ABOVE asking price!

So; how are we doing this?...... We built A Better Mouse Trap to Sell Your Home!

Why pay 2% more for one of "Those Over-Priced…

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What Is My Home Worth In Today's Market?

It's Easy, It's Free and you see the most current market data not available to the public.

Are you interested in finding out the value of your home or a home in another area, but not ready to talk with a Broker Yet? With our FREE on-line Market Snapshot you can enter your home address or any other home address and see exactly how the market is going.

Market Snapshot will pull all homes within 1 mile of the address you give and within the size range you specify and show:

  1. Active Homes for Sale
  2. Pending Homes that have an offer.
  3. Sold Homes including the actual closed price, how long the home was on the market, and the difference between the “Asking” price and the actual “Sold” price.

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Understanding the Numbers When Buying in a Low Inventory Real Estate Market

As a homebuyer in today’s market, you’re no doubt at your wit’s end trying to find your dream home.

And when you find a home you love,  you’re competing with all cash offers and bidding wars driving the sales price above what it’s listed for, and many times, even above what the home is actually worth!

While there is nothing you can do to create more homes for sale, you can certainly arm yourself by understanding the trends and patterns in the areas you’re trying to buy in.

While it’s not quite rocket science, there is definitely a significant competitive advantage to those that understand the trends of a real estate market.

Sometimes, being competitive means not…

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A home buyer does not want to be caught off guard in a seller's market. It's one of the reasons that the most important thing a home buyer can do is trust his or her real estate agent to advise on market conditions. If it is a seller's market, it could very difficult, if not almost impossible, to buy the first home a buyer wants to buy.

Because home buyers generally have very little interest in the real estate market when they are not buying a home, they don't always know how the market moves from one season to another, much less from month to month. It is often uncomfortable for a buyer to be told the market is a seller's market when the buyer may believe otherwise -- especially a buyer who is trying to buy in a down real estate market.

Markets…

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Jon Marical

  • Email:  Jon@TheCascadeTeam.com
  • Cell:  541.430.2551

We are happy to welcome Jon Marical to The Cascade Team! He will be joining our Portland office.

At age 15 I developed an intense interest in Real Estate. Helping a close friend find homes on the local MLS, and helping him show homes gave me an early feel for how things are done properly. I Spent the following six years in the construction industry doing everything by hand that makes your home shine! After two years in retail management, I am finally ready to chase my dream by providing the best customer service you can find. For most people, buying a home is the biggest investment of your life. When making such a big decision it is important to have someone you can talk…

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Have you found the house of your dreams yet? If you've found a property you love, you now need to decide how much you're willing to offer. You want to be conservative enough that you get a good deal, but you don't want to bid so low that you risk losing the house. The following are some questions that need to be answered prior to making an offer:

  • How long has the house been on the market? The longer it's been on the market, the more flexible the sellers are likely to be.
  • How much are people paying for similar properties in the area?
  • How much can you afford?
  • Are you pre-approved for a loan? If so, you will be very attractive to sellers, and you'll have more room to negotiate.
  • How badly do you want this sale to go through?
  • See more…

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