By Rebecca Bingham
Happy February! We got through all two years of January!
Remember how I told you quarter one was going to be banging? I was supposed to show five houses tonight, and four of them went pending on Monday! Fifty-three homes were off the market and they are now back on the market as of this morning. So, if you're browsing, it might be time to start making plans to go see them while some sellers are still making concessions and while mortgage companies are offering some pretty alluring terms.
I looked up the most expensive home on the listing service most of Washington uses, and currently, a home came on the market on February 1 for $39,800,000! A home priced at $85 million just came off the market, unsold, as of December 31, 2022, but in the same community. North end Mercer Island (of course).
On that daydreamy note, some easy ways to update your home and banish the dark and gray outside are things like hanging a gallery wall of photos (especially of nature), buying new towels, or putting new covers over your couch throws. If you can paint, doing neat diagonals of contrasting colors livens up a small room. The colors that interior designers love right now are earthy shades of the rainbow, deep sapphire blues, textured browns, dark purples, and mossy greens, but with bright yellows and reds. The colder gray interior colors are being replaced by warmer rusts, burgundies, ambers, and ivory. Stacking books horizontally as well as shelving vertically is breaking up bookcases now, as well as using tall, slender things to feature airiness and hide the cave.
May we continue to have more sunny days than drizzly! Contact me if you have any real estate needs, questions, or referrals, and send me any home-related questions for next month’s column via DM on Fetlife or Facebook. (I’ll keep it confidential, of course!)
xoxo,
Becca