Nancy's Olympia area Blog
A blog about community events in the Olympia/Lacey/Tumwater area in WA including the real estate market in those communities.
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One of my favorite local events in the fall is the Fall Arts Walk in downtown Olympia, and it is coming up this weekend! The hours of the event are Friday, October 4th from 5-10 PM and then Saturday, October 5th from 11 AM - 4 PM. Arts Walk will include over 100 participating downtown store...
09/30/2013
Fall and drizzly days have arrived in the Pacific NW for sure. But that doesn't mean you have to abandon the thoughts of garden and flowers and creating beauty for next spring. Two local events will help - one about planning your landscape to be low maintenance, with plants that will attract bu...
09/26/2013
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If the rain outside my office window wasn't enough of a reminder that fall is here, the arrival of the spawning salmon would do it. (And actually seeing the salmon is a lot more fun than looking at the rain....) The first good viewing place to see the salmon is from the bridge at 4th Ave downtow...
09/25/2013
When a new listing hits the market, there is usually a flurry of showing activity with buyers eager to see if this house might be "THE ONE" they have been searching for. This might continue for several weeks, but at some point if the house has not sold, that showing activity begins dwindling. Th...
09/24/2013
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Jubilee continues to appeal to a wide range of buyers who want to simplify their lifestyle, and have all of the amenities and activities close at hand that Jubilee's Lodge offers. So what is available right now for homes for sale? Checking out NWMLS active listings today, I find 15 homes liste...
09/23/2013
Jubilee in Lacey offers a lot to folks looking for a low maintenance lifestyle with loads of activities close at hand. And those benefits have kept homes in Jubilee selling at a brisk pace this year. Currently our NWMLS shows that over the last six months, there have been 23 home sales, includ...
09/23/2013
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Seriously? This house has one too many hurdle I fear! I'm not even sure what to make of this particular listing.... bank owned house that looks to be overpriced. (Of course with only one picture, it's kind of hard to tell for sure....but yes, overpriced). And that's not the part that I'm puzzlin...
09/23/2013
I've noticed that buyers tend to fall into two categories - those whose goals about owning real estate are primarily focused on short term needs, and those who have a long range plan. What do I mean? Especially when buying a very first home, it is pretty easy to get so distracted by the excitem...
09/22/2013
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First impressions of a home often start right at the front entrance. And that first impression just might cause the buyer to run - fast - in the opposite direction. If you are trying to sell your home, that is most definitely NOT the reaction you wanted a buyer to have. Any obvious signs of d...
09/21/2013
Recently I mentioned in our office meeting that I had checked out the numbers to see what proportion of active listings in the Olympia/Lacey/Tumwater area are short sales or bank owned, compared to the total available listings. As it had seemed to me, those numbers are shrinking. But the number...
09/19/2013
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