Learn about local real estate and housing market trends from The Cascade Team Real Estate.

 

We want to give a big shout out to Estate Fence Company and their owner Byron Bese. Janet and I along with a couple of our neighbors just had our fences done and we couldn’t be happier! We decided to go with their “Clear Cedar” product which is knot free… The cost was about 5% more (So $350 on a $7,000 fence) but the results are about 300 (x) better!

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Just recently a few of our other neighbors on the street used another fence company which I will not name here. Some of the new fence we did is separated by a small path with the other fencing and the difference is night and day. Just check out the pictures and the video. The Clear Cedar by Estate Fence Company just blows away the…

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“Information and statistics derived from Northwest Multiple Listing Service.”

  • Even as more homes come on the market for this popular sales season, they're flying off fast.
  • Home prices have now surpassed their last peak, and at the entry level, where demand is highest, sellers are in the driver's seat.

Spring homebuyers are pounding the pavement at a furious pace, but the pickings are getting ever slimmer.

Even as more homes come on the market for this traditionally popular sales season, they're flying off fast, with bidding wars par for the course. Home prices have now surpassed their last peak, and at the entry level, where demand is highest, sellers are firmly in the driver's seat.

Northwest MLS figures for last month show a…

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Welcome To The Cascade Team Andrew Wright!

We are happy to welcome Andrew Wright to The Cascade Team Spokane Office.  He will be working out of our Spokane Office with James Faucett, Managing Broker.

Andrew has been helping home buyers and sellers navigate the real estate sales process since 2011. Since then he has worked with and learned from some of Spokane’s top agents. Real estate investing is one of his passions and he makes keeping up to date local and regional real estate trends a central aspect of both sides of his real estate business. Arming potential home buyers and sellers with the right information quickly through diligent research and regular communication ensures smooth transactions more often for clients. Because of his attention…

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Be careful: You and your buyer may be under surveillance when touring a property. Some sellers are using surveillance cameras inside their home to record the sight and sound as prospective buyers walk through. 

The increase in these home recordings—many from security systems that owners already have installed—are raising some concerns surrounding privacy in real estate transactions, MarketWatch reports. 

The trend has spurred what Joan Rogers, a broker with Windermere Realty Trust in Portland, Ore., calls a “Hey, be aware of this” conversation among her colleagues and counterparts. Rogers says the discussion started in her area about three years ago, “about the same time that integrated home media and security became a thing, with devices that…

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$1,135,000 - 8822 McIntosh Ct SE, Snoqualmie
  Bedrooms : 5
  Bathrooms : 2.75
  Sq. Footage : 3,547
  Year Built : 2008
  Garage Spaces : 3
  Type : Residential
  MLS® Number : 1258660
 
 
 
 
 
OFFERED BY: PROPERTY DESCRIPTION:
  Laura A. Hodgson
Broker
1-800-509-6905 ext. 1104
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Dream Home loaded w/ upgrades situated on a LARGE greenbelt lot w/ STUNNING Sunroom (heated floors and power blinds) adj to…

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The spring selling season is upon us, and while it’s traditionally the busiest time of year for real estate, this spring promises to be even more competitive than usual—particularly for first-time home buyers. With ultra-tight inventory and continually increasing home prices, it’s imperative that your buyers be ready to make an offer and move forward on a purchase contract at a moment’s notice.

The Cascade Team is a real estate brokerage whose focus is centered on customer service.  Our customers are our number one priority and our local agent team works hard to not only find properties that meet your needs and wants, but also leverages their local market knowledge to help guide you through the home search process.  Our commitment to excellence in…

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The Offer Countdown Timer:

When we at The Cascade Team receive an offer on your listing, we will now activate the offer countdown on your property website with just a couple clicks. The property website will prominently display the timer counting down second by second until the offer review deadline. This will help us promote your home and let potential buyers know that they have a limited amount of time to get an offer in if they would like to potentially purchase your home.

The property website is linked from all kinds of sites like Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com, Yahoo Homes, Google and many more. In addition we will also promote your listing and the countdown to make offer through social media such as Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, LinkedIn,…

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Homeowners who’ve been through multiple winters know that this time of year isn’t a time to be slacking in home maintenance. There’s more to March madness than just basketball—in housing, it’s the time to make sure owners are staying proactive in tending to their homes through these next few springtime months. 

HouseLogic shares four tasks all owners have to do in March:

  1. Patch up spots on the lawn. As spring showers start to arrive, be sure to cover any bare areas on your yard. This is a crucial task to take care of as snow and ice continue to melt away, and doing so will keep mud and water out of your house.
  2. Use binoculars to inspect the roof and siding. It’s important to look for signs of damage on your home’s roof and siding. To save…

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From our founding in 2006, The Cascade Team has advertised properties for sale on hundreds of websites around the world as part of our PRIME Marketing System. Today we’re adding an important new option, Juwai.com. Juwai is one of the leading property portals in China with 2.6 million users visiting every month. It’s unique in that it’s hosted in China’s mainland, so they aren’t blocked entirely or slowed down to unusable speeds by the Great Firewall.

Listings at The Cascade Team now have the option to be listed on Juwai to get more exposure to Chinese investors. Chinese buyers bought 28.6 billion worth of residential properties in the US from April 2014 to March 2015 (NAR statistic). Sellers are increasingly asking how their home will be marketed…

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Looking back at 2017, the number of homes on the market in the Seattle metropolitan area had dropped 10 percent from the previous year—fueling Bidding Wars and a tough market for buyers that was felt all year long. Now, at that same time in 2018, inventory is even worse, dropping an additional 19 percent from this time last year, according to the latest reports.

In the metropolitan area, which includes King, Pierce and Snohomish counties, that inventory drop drove bidding wars in 2017 with 52.4 percent of home sales ended up above asking. Now in 2018 we are faced with an even bigger inventory crunch, that’s not expected to stop anytime soon. Adding to that slowly raising interest rates and buyers are becoming more and more aggressive and in fact…

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