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Olympia real estate trends don’t always trace patterns that are precisely identical to those in the rest of the state or nation, but sooner or later the local market almost always responds similarly. That’s because there is a certain amount of momentum—positive or negative—that is automatically s...

Staging is to an Olympia home what packaging is to a supermarket product: a vital element that can supersede all others. Product managers rely on advertising and marketing efforts to create awareness among consumers, just as homeowners use their Realtor’s marketing know-how (the listing, web page...

It can be a true three-ring circus as you close in on signing day for your new Olympia home. Sometimes there’s a near-simultaneous sale of the previous house that demands attention. There are the timing issues connected with moving out and then moving in. You may be dealing with furnishing the ne...

For many Olympia parents of high school seniors, these are hold-your-breath days—the time of year when college acceptance letters begin showing up in Olympia mailboxes. If all goes well, after settling on a school, next comes tackling the array of decisions that follow. Chief among them: where he...

 When you own the Olympia home your family lives in, you are by definition a real estate investor: it comes with the turf. Your investment is essentially a passive one. Until the day you decide to sell and move on, any improvement in its value is secondary to how well it serves to shelter your fa...

This March has been such a busy one on the Olympia real estate calendar that I thought it would be a good idea to double-check everything just to be certain I wasn’t overlooking any important happenings. It wasn’t just that the first day of spring on the 20th is the traditional start of what’s re...

The first day of spring! The vernal equinox! 2015, March 20 is the red-letter day on Olympia’s real estate calendar. It’s the nominal kickoff to the traditionally rambunctious spring selling season—historically, the go-go time of year. It’s when more homes come on the market, more prospective buy...

Would you buy a house where someone died? Would it make a difference if the death was peaceful or…otherwise? You might never have considered such questions, but the answers can become a serious issue for an Olympia house for sale—especially if it has a history that could be right out of a CSI epi...

 Many people don’t fully understand why it is that St. Patrick’s is the perfect day for selling a Olympia home, or for buying one. But if ever there were a right time to explain it, this is it. There is one drawback to any such explanation, though: namely, that it makes so little sense. That doe...

Starbucks will boost your home’s value? This was the  “hot home-buying tip” splashed all over the airwaves at the end of February—one that Olympia real estate watchers probably assumed had to be one of those weird, crazy coincidence feature stories that crop up from time to time. It was a little ...