Marguerite Giguere's (getrealtacoma) Blog

Roxanne Hugging Her House By Roxanne Murphy Having an obsession isn’t always such a bad thing. At least that’s how I feel after the experiences that I went through in finding and buying the gorgeous Eastside home that I’m sitting in now. In 2003, I was a determined 27-year-old, and I had my sigh...

Jacob Rose of Better Properties Real Estate and the fabulous blog, Tacoma Untapped, is reporting that the McCarver Neighborhood is one step closer to getting a mixed use building! For those not familiar, McCarver is the name of the the neighborhood being bon out of the area between Hilltop and Un...

Some people want to buy a house in perfect shape. Other people see a house in disrepair and can imagine it reborn, remodeled, and tailored to their specific needs and tastes.   I confess to being in the latter group, I tend to get very excited about well priced homes that need fixing.   The prob...

    Yesterday through the magic of technology I found out that I have looked at 169 houses in Tacoma and South Pierce County in the past 6 months.  That's a lot of houses!  Since the majority of my buyers right now are looking for houses under $200,000, the majority of those houses were Foreclose...

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  The Walker According to Jake over at Tacoma Untapped, the Walker Condos have shown up for rent on Craigslist.  Last time I checked there were more than 130 condos on the market downtown, most of them new construction.   This is good news for anyone trying to sell or planning to list anytime soo...

Tacoma Public Utilities is offering a series of workshops for improving your home.  The first is tomorrow night and has to do with working with what you've got as far as your heating sytem goes: Make the Most of Your Heating System Thursday, January 15th 7-8:30pm 3628 South 35th St (38th & Union...

As of today, there are 1,987 houses and condos for sale in Tacoma.  The median size is 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms 1,561 square feet.  The median list price is $239,950. There are currently 309 Pending Sales in Tacoma, giving us a city wide sales ratio of 15%.  A balanced market is around 50%.  Less...

UPDATE:  Thanks to Timothy for this link. REET no longer applies to short sales. THANK GOODNESS! Washington Realtors Association sent out a notice to it's members this morning, saying that "The Department of Revenue (DOR) recently sent a letter to the Escrow Association explaining its position t...

I'm running out of clever preambles, so let's kick off part 3 of Tacoma Sales Stastics 2008.  For this round, we're looking at 98403, for the purposes of this post, we're going to call this Stadium, even though it covers North Slope and some Old Town, because calling it StadiOldSlope is a compro...