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Things to do in Seattle in June

June 4, 2018 By Remax On Market

Seattle International Film Festival 
Running until June 10th
More than 400 films from 90 countries. 25 days. 145,000+ attendees. Movies and showtimes vary.

Upstream Music Festival
June 1 – 3
Music festival takes place in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood, with headlining acts such as Jawbreaker, Cut Copy, The Flaming Lips and Murder City Devils alongside Seattle locals like TacoCat.

Georgetown Carnival
Saturday,  June 9th, Noon – 10 PM
Enjoy live music, street art, food trucks and beer gardens in Seattle’s historic Georgetown neighborhood.

Shilshole Boat Fest
Saturday June 9th, 11 AM – 5 PM
This FREE event will get you and your family out on a boat and introduce you to people who can help navigate how to get into boating. Learn how to boat safely and how to protect the environment while boating. Enjoy family friendly activities, live music, food trucks, a beer garden, and vendors celebrating the Ballard community!

Fremont Fair and Solstice Parade 
June 16 & 17
Yearly fair and home of the famous “naked cyclists,” you’d be surprised this is family-friendly event. This annual tradition brings floods of people to the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. Tons of food and craft vendors, and annual bicycle parade with painted cyclists and crazy costumes. Parade begins Saturday, June 16 @ 1 PM.

Zoo Tunes
June 2018
Various musical acts including Ziggy Marley, The Violent Femmes, Indigo Girls and Andrew Bird play at Woodland Park Zoo in the Phinney Ridge neighborhood of Seattle.

Marymoor Park Concert Series
June 2018
Musical acts including the Barenaked Ladies, Janelle Monae, Primus, Robert Plant, Sublime, Willie Nelson play this family-friendly park located in Redmond.

Seattle Pride Parade
Sunday, June 24th @ 11 AM
Seattle’s 44th annual pride parade starts downtown at 4th and Union and continues until Denny Way. Get your pride on and don’t forget your glitter hot pants.

Filed Under: Ballard Neighborhood News, RE/MAX News, Seattle News Tagged With: beer festivals seattle, pride parade seattle, seattle events, seattle festivals, seattle live music, seattle summer, seattle summer events, things to do in Seattle

RE/MAX On Market Featured In Seattle Time’s Homebuyer Article

May 18, 2018 By Remax On Market

Homebuyer article
Image Courtesy of The Seattle Times

Three of our clients were featured so prominently in this Seattle Times article on homebuying. It was great also to see dear friends Jaime Stenwick at RE/MAX Junction and Kyle Bergquist at PRM quoted. One of our preferred lenders, Jeff McGinnis at Wallick & Volk, is the guy who left the birthday party to make magic for one of our clients. He should have been named!

Here’s some top quotes, first from our client Kara (and her lender, Jeff):

Kara Fichthorn remembers the frantic experience when she and her boyfriend were locked in a bidding war for a house in Wedgwood and the seller’s skeptical agent wanted to talk to their lender — who was based in Bellevue and knew the local market — immediately.

“He (the lender) was at his wife’s birthday party, and he left the birthday party to talk to the selling agent to double confirm that we were legit and we could afford this house,” Fichthorn said. They got the house.

The biggest thing sellers are looking for now is certainty that a deal will close quickly and under the terms agreed upon.

Next up, from our client Morgan Avis, who initially listed his Queen Anne condo with no staging and fixing. We later took on this listing after the initial failure and sold it above listing price:

There are so many developers and wannabe contractors who watched a few hours of HGTV out there now that you can’t find any great deals on true fixer-uppers: Even complete teardowns are going for a half-million bucks.

But you can set yourself apart by being less picky. Morgan Avis initially tried to sell his Queen Anne condo without doing any staging or fixing up basic imperfections. He was stunned to see home shoppers come by and complain about things like a flat-screen TV bracket he left on the wall — one person even whined about a cracked outlet faceplate, something that could be replaced with a couple of bucks and two screws.

No one bid on the condo, which he priced at $395,000, after five weeks on the market. On the advice of his realtor, he put about $1,500 worth of “really petty work” into the condo — like moving the microwave onto a shelf instead of the kitchen counter — and staged it. They relisted it, and instantly sold it for $420,000.

“My advice for buyers is: Be willing to overlook cosmetic things; think about what it would really cost to fix something and the inconvenience” it would take, Avis said.

Finally, our managing broker John Manning was quoted on the homebuying process as well:

There is a typical process that buyers will go through: They will bid somewhat conservatively on the first house, lose by a lot, and be flabbergasted when they find out what the winning bidder did. Their frustration will cause them to increase their offer the next time, and the time after that. Eventually, a “winning at all costs” mentality takes over.

“It’s almost a psychological defeat that causes them to become desperate, quite frankly, and if they have the cash, they will often throw more cash at a home than the technical value itself might support,” said John Manning, a RE/MAX broker in Ballard.

Overall, the article has inaccuracies and is more negative than the reality but its still nice to be quoted and have our RE/MAX On Market client successes feature so prominently as the bright spots in the story. Regardless, if you have a great agent who knows how to navigate the market, negotiate, and analyze pricing, you won’t find yourself in a situation as terrible as the article paints. Our brokers at RE/MAX On Market are highly qualified and trained to get you through these situations. Contact us today!

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Filed Under: RE/MAX News, Seattle Homes Tagged With: Buying a Home, Guide to Buying a Home, Homebuyer, Homebuyer Journey, Seattle Homebuyer, seattle real estate, Seattle Times

SOLD: 5679 Beach Drive SW – West Seattle

May 14, 2018 By Remax On Market

West Seattle waterfront home

SOLD: 5679 Beach Drive SW
West Seattle, WA
MLS #: 1256502
Sold Price: $2,250,000 (100% of Listing Price)
Listing Agent: John Manning

Filed Under: RE/MAX News, Real Estate News, Seattle Homes Tagged With: Luxury Homes, Seattle homes, seattle real estate, The RE/MAX Collection, View Homes, Waterfront Homes, Waterfront Property, West Seattle

March 2018 Market Update

April 7, 2018 By Remax On Market

Seattle’s NWMLS has released this handy infographic as a way to help you better understand Seattle’s real estate market. Some points that stood out in the March 2018 recap were:

  • New median home price is $401,762, an increase of more than 13% from the same time last year
  • Closed sales decreased by 180 compared to March 2017
  • Active listings were nearly 10% lower than last year
  • There was 3.71 Billion dollars in closed sales, a 10% increase from last year

Marck 2018 Market Update Infographic Seattle Real Estate Market NWMLS

If you have questions about buying or selling a home in Seattle or the surrounding area, we would love to be a resource for you. Please don’t hesitate to contact us with all your real estate related questions!

Filed Under: RE/MAX News, Real Estate News, Seattle Homes Tagged With: King County homes, MLS listings, NWMLS, seattle home search, Seattle homes, seattle listings, seattle real estate, seattle realtors

Our West Seattle Waterfront Home Featured in Patti Payne’s Cool Pads!

April 6, 2018 By Remax On Market

5679 Beach Drive Views

Our West Seattle Waterfront home, located at 5679 Beach Drive SW, was featured in this week’s “Patti Payne’s Cool Pads” in Puget Sound Business Journal.

“You’re very much at ease in this comfortable, traditional house. It’s a house with million dollar views that makes you sort of relax,” says listing agent, RE/MAX On Market’s John Manning.

The seller has nothing but great things to say about the home as well. “We absolutely love the beach lifestyle. Love waking up in the morning and smelling the saltwater, hearing the waves against the bulkhead and watching marine life out the windows.”

For more information on this property, click here.

Filed Under: RE/MAX News, Seattle Homes

What’s a Miracle Home?

April 4, 2018 By Remax On Market

Remax Miracle HomesYou might’ve seen our post last week with our buyer holding the “Miracle Home” sign and wondered, “What is it?”

Miracle Homes is a program that allows RE/MAX agents to make donations to children’s hospitals around the country. Since 1992, RE/MAX has partnered with Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) hospitals to raise more than $150 million for 170 partner hospitals and helped save countless young lives.  Here in the Pacific Northwest, our donations go to Seattle Children’s Hospital in direct support of their charter to never turn any child away who needs care.

At RE/MAX On Market, we make a donation to Seattle Children’s Hospital after the sale of every home we sell.  If we donate after the purchase or sale of your home, we will send you an Honor Card to let you know your home purchase or sale went towards a great cause!

If you’re not looking to buy or sell right now, you can still support your local CMN Hospital by making a donation at www.cmnhospitals.org.

Take a look at the infographic below to see the impact of donations.

Miracle Home Infographic

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Join Us At RE/MAX On Market

March 16, 2018 By Remax On Market

Ready to love your job as part of a thriving real estate company with a great culture? Come join us at RE/MAX On Market, one of the newest and most successful real estate companies in the Seattle area. We are headquartered in a modern, light-filled, loft-like office space perfectly located on 20th and Market in downtown Ballard. Here are a few of the ways we stand out:

  • Our work culture is respectful and service-minded, both to our clients and our team
  • We are selective in recruiting our brokers, looking for the most professional and highest integrity with a desire to continually grow, learn and innovate
  • We are collaborative and resourceful in support of each other. If you need someone to open doors or host an open house, we are happy to help
  • We make it our job to help you meet your career and financial goals, with coaching in areas such as business building, marketing and penetrating neighborhoods or markets
  • Our ongoing training program is very efficient, often presented as 5 minute trainings on relevant and timely topics from risk mitigation, contract negotiation to breakthrough marketing and branding
  • We have a business administration team to help you through transactions so you can focus on what you best: listing, selling and being a valued consultant to your clients
  • Our internal marketing team serves all levels of marketing from neighborhood farming to broker brand building. We have 25+ years of marketing and PR to apply to your business
  • Our office is thoughtfully designed to be an inviting and comfortable place to work or host clients.
  • We are set up for presentations, events and host client parties several times a year RE/MAX is the largest and most successful real estate brand in the world. We have tapped into the healthy, global RE/MAX referral pipeline, which is a significant differentiator given the vast numbers of relocations to our region
  • Finally, we have fun and enjoy each other as a team, with team building events and casual get-togethers to discuss market dynamics.

If this sounds of interest to you, we’d love to talk further!

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Required experience: residential real estate: 2 years

Required license or certification: Real Estate License

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Manning Sedgwick Is Now RE/MAX On Market

January 1, 2018 By Remax On Market

“Great brands evolve and RE/MAX is no different.” –Adam Contos, RE/MAX CEO

John Manning built his real estate company nearly a decade ago to provide a higher standard of competence, data-informed insights and service transparency to each client transaction. In early 2017, John moved his successful independent brokerage, Manning Sedgwick, to the RE/MAX brand to deepen his client offering. RE/MAX On Market is located at 2020 NW Market St #202 , on the top floor of the old brick Washington Federal building. We are located in the heart of Ballard to better serve our clients in this neighborhood we call home and surrounding areas.

You can expect the same great service you received with Manning Sedgwick, as well as the new brand recognition and refreshed look of the RE/MAX franchise. We are looking forward to exciting things happening as we press ahead. If you’re looking for a service-focused team to buy or sell your home, please don’t hesitate to contact us. Our phone number is 206-965-8205 or email john@remaxonmarket.com.

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