It’s Spring!--Traditionally the time of year when area homeowners who haven’t yet listed their homes for sale in Olympia, may have a legitimate question about whether it’s too late to benefit from the spring selling season. This year, they may also be legitimately concerned that the rise in ...

Olympia home sales usually do respond to seasonal patterns that are familiar in most other areas. Spring and summer lead the way for weather-related, financial, school scheduling and other family-related reasons. From now into well into the early fall, house sales activity can be counted on to peak. Those are ...

Time Magazine ended last week with a commentary that could foreshadow how this year’s Olympia housing market might differ from years past. Author Bill Saporito identified a mismatch in the housing market that could bode well for empty nesters. Whether or not the implications will be a perfect fit for ...

The timing for when to sell a Olympia home can be a decision that pretty much makes itself. Sometimes family demands call for a move to larger or smaller quarters; sometimes a change in career demands or a schooling decision dictates a residential switch. But there are other times when ...

This Sunday marked the annual “spring forward” sleep-robbing occasion: the switch to this year’s Daylight Savings Time. “Springing forward” may sound like a spirited, energetic exercise, but for Olympia residents like me who do our best to keep regular hours, this week it will inevitably produce, at minimum, an extra ...

It turns out that the run of admirable national and Olympia home sales advances have been pulled off despite a couple of strong counter-currents. At least that’s the theme that emerges from last month’s Aspiring Home Buyers Profile report, which supplied one obvious and one not-so-obvious widespread beliefs among would-be ...