Sammamish Washington Named The Nation’s Friendliest Town!

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Forbes partnered with Nextdoor.com, a social network for neighborhoods, to determine the friendliest towns in America. A total of 500 towns with populations between 5,500 and 150,000 were included in the study and ranked on the percentage of owner-occupied homes, crime rate, charitable giving, and percentage of college graduates. Studies have shown home ownership can increase neighborhood stability and college-educated people have been found to display more civic engagement. 

The following towns emerged as the top 6 friendliest towns in the nation, according to the study:

1. Sammamish, Wash.: a Seattle suburb where nearly 90 percent of households own their own…

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Remodeling Cost & Life Expectancy Guide

During the process of buying or selling a home, our clients often learn about recommended or required repairs and upgrades. This can happen as a result of the home inspection as well as our expert knowledge of your market and comparable homes. Of course, the first thing homeowners or potential homeowners want to know is, "How much will that cost?"

The Cascade Team is pleased to offer our Residential Construction and Remodeling Estimates cost guide, which provides estimated cost ranges for repair and/or replacement of the major systems and components in a home. It also includes general guidelines for the life expectancies of those systems. This information can help your clients make informed decisions when they're considering home repairs or…

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Home Prices are On The Rise! Get a FREE On-Line Value Report HERE!

Home prices are beginning to rebound with some areas increasing from 3% to 16% over the past 12 months. If you have not done an accurate check of your homes value in the past year, our FREE On-Line Home Value Analysis tool allows you to see exactly what your home value is doing.

It’s not a guess or Zestimate like Zillow. These are actual Sold, Pending and Active prices.  You can also see what home inventory levels area doing, Closed Sale price vs/ Asking Price and more!

It's absolutely FREE and there is no obligation. Fill out the form HERE to receive a real time MLS report on active and sold home in your area. See the sample report layout below.

Sign Up Below For Your FREE Home Value Report

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Congratulations Shane and Anne Coulter - 2012 Rookie of The Year Award Winners!

Shane and Anne are not only new to The Cascade Team, but to Real Estate completely..... Yet in 2012 (Thier first full year in Real Estate) Shane and Anne closed 24 transactions and have another 3 deals currently pending! What an amazing testiment to them and their hard work to get 27 Real Estate transactions signed around in their first full year! We are all so very proud to have you be a part of The Cascade Team. Agents like you are the key to our continued success!

That is truely fantastic work! I hope that everyone will take a moment to congratulate Shane and Anne.

Read more about Shane & Anne HERE

Cascade Team Real Estate agents spend their time serving customers, studying the market and touring homes, so they can provide the most accurate…

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The Cascade Team 2012 SOS Winners!

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The Cascade Team SOS Agent Designation

The S.O.S. designation is the highest honor a member of The Cascade Team Real Estate can earn. S.O.S. encompasses not only the strive and achievement of being among the top producing agents in sales, but also the commitment to the communities we serve and work in.

The S.O.S. designation is awarded to agents and brokers who ranked in the top 10% for sales company wide, “And”  who also demonstrated exceptional commitment to community. Holders of the S.O.S. designation are the cornerstone of The Cascade Team Real Estate. They continually give back through community programs like Project Crayon Drive to benefit Children’s Hospital, during the free holiday sleigh rides events, and within their local…

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Who's Calling the Shots: Buyers or Sellers? Seattle & Phoenix amoung TOP Markets for Sellers!

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The housing market is changing, creating a “new playing field for home owners, who are finally able to sell, as well as would-be buyers who've been delaying a purchase in anticipation that prices would keep falling,” Money Magazine reports. 

Mortgages for home purchases are expected to soar 55 percent in 2013, according to forecasts by the Mortgage Bankers Association. 

“The days of buyers sticking it to sellers are over," says Tracie Peay, a Salt Lake City real estate practitioner.

Still, home sellers should keep their expectations in line: Price increases are to be modest and gradual. Fiserv forecasts home prices will rise 3.3…

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23 Federal Laws that Apply to Real Estate Sales

Residential real estate has become more complex over the years as a result of laws enacted to protect consumers' welfare. Here are 23 federal laws that play a part in residential real estate.

The article provides a nice and concise summary of the multitude of Federal laws that govern the various aspects of real estate transactions.  Needless to say, there are many. For further information on how these laws impact your real estate transactions, please contact your real estate broker with The Cascade Team and they will be happy to assist you!

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The Effects of the Holidays Have on The Housing Market

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We generally think of the holiday season as causing explosions of bad (if sweet) sweaters, creating waistline expansion and snowballing into bank account shrinkage. But there are loads of less obvious implications of the holidays - both good and bad - in every area of life.
For example, I recently read that household energy use spikes almost 39 percent in December (bad), due to holiday lighting (good) and baking (good) and all the extra time we run the furnace for our holiday guests (good). Depression and alcohol use go up, but so does charitable giving. Stress goes up, but so do acts of kindness.

What if we applied that same, balanced eye to understanding the effects the holidays are likely to have on your local real estate…

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Seattle Home Sales Post the Best November in Six Years!

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High demand, low inventory sparking multiple offers, market momentum

KIRKLAND, Wash. (Dec. 5, 2012) – Real estate brokers expected some seasonal slowing during November, but last month’s falloff was less than what some industry veterans anticipated. Members of Northwest Multiple Listing Service reported 6,522 pending sales last month -- the highest total for November in six years.

"The market is done with needed correction," declared one broker.

New figures from the MLS show last month’s pending sales rose 6.9 percent compared to a year ago, and was the best November for mutually accepted offers since 2006 when members tallied 7,022 pending transactions. As expected, the volume dropped from October’s total of 8,312…

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Welcome To The Team - Cynthia Thompson

We are happy to welcome Cynthia Thompson to The Cascade Team in Arizona.  Cynthia is a transplant from the Seattle area as well and comes to us with a deep knowledge of both the real estate business and opening and operating a brokerage.  In Seattle she worked for Better Properties, helped them open a number of offices throughout the Seattle/Tacoma area, and ran a branch with 50+ agents.  She is going to be focused on building a team and opening a new office in the Gilbert/Chandler area.  We are glad to have her working with us and know that she will be a great asset in developing the Greater Phoenix market.

480-719-1517 - Ext 701
cynthia@thecascadeteam.com

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