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It’s true of any commercial offering: sometimes a perfectly saleable item doesn’t move off the shelves as rapidly as predicted. Real estate is no exception—not every Olympia home is sold as quickly as its owner and the property’s Realtor® wish. When that happens, and the term of the original list...

Most Americans have now arrived at the conclusion that it is a good time to buy a home. That’s the top line analysis from one of the country’s major mortgage creators, but there’s a secondary finding about credit scores that could also have a sizeable impact on Olympia real estate activity. Some ...

If you are among this July’s consumers who are actively shopping for a home for sale in Olympia, you have probably already taken a look at the Olympia listings and most likely jotted down some addresses you’d like to examine in detail. Then, if you find yourself in the happy situation of finding ...

Last week’s reporting showed the same kind of upward movement that’s become commonplace for Olympia real estate investment news watchers. A standout: Corelogic’s finding that national home prices in May increased by 6.3%, marking the 39th consecutive monthly year-over-year increase.Actually, to a...

Olympia home buying activity may be going great guns, but for some would-be buyers, credit score woes are still a stubborn obstacle. That’s why we have been keeping an eye on the new pilot project that was announced late last year. This was the one called the "Wealth Building Home Loan." It’s an ...

For years, there was little debate about the need for open houses in Olympia: almost without exception, unless the seller of a Olympia home objected, at least one or two open houses were an accepted part of how most real estate agents went about marketing the property.Today, along with all the ot...

Putting together a Olympia listing is serious business. It has to be brief, to-the-point, and at the same time, engaging. The photos and language of a Olympia listing is the tip of the marketing spear: if it’s dull, and just a repetition of the specifics that are enumerated in the columns of numb...

“WHY YOUR RENT CHECK JUST KEEPS GOING UP” was the headline in CNN Money’s real estate special report last month, which could have explained to Olympia renters why it is that U.S. rents keep rising faster than home values. After all, that doesn’t seem to make sense!The list of reasons was long, an...

For years, there was little debate about the need for open houses in Olympia: almost without exception, unless the seller of a Olympia home objected, at least one or two open houses were an accepted part of how most real estate agents went about marketing the property.Today, along with all the ot...

For years, there was little debate about the need for open houses in Tumwater: almost without exception, unless the seller of a Tumwater home objected, at least one or two open houses were an accepted part of how most real estate agents went about marketing the property.Today, along with all the ...