Buyers have a lot of Sequim real estate questions, and if you are a buyer wanting accurate and thorough answers to your questions, you need to know where to find those answers. What if there was a free online site or affiliated sites where you could find the answers to any of hundreds of Sequim real estate questions? There are two sites that do answer your questions, and these two sits answer literally hundreds of questions that buyers have been asking for two decades about Sequim. 

Sequim Real Estate Questions

The first site is this Sequim MLS site, which is full of articles answering questions. As the best Sequim MLS site, it was designed and programmed specifically by me in exactly the way buyers have wanted. It is not only easy to navigate, it is very powerful and offers buyers many options on how to search for the ideal property. In addition to this site being a 100% accurate and powerful Sequim MLS site to answer your questions about all the properties listed for sale in the Sequim area, this site also has articles addressing primary concerns. And if that wasn’t enough, there is more.

Sequim Real Estate Answers

In the right margin of the pages, there are links to hundreds of more articles answering Sequim real estate questions. Those links lead to a second site, which is the largest Sequim real estate blog with almost 2,000 articles written specifically to answer Sequim real estate questions. That blog is found directly at SequimRealEstateNews.com. 

In addition, you’ll find many links on these two sites to additional affiliate sites and online tools that answer Sequim real estate questions on nearly every issue that has been asked. Now, here’s a bonus. If you cannot find the answer to your question, you can get the answer, because the man behind these sites is a real veteran with over three decades in the business, 20 years as a real estate attorney, author of ten books, mostly real estate books (including books written for buyers, i.e. Sequim Real Estate: A Buyer’s Guide), and author of all the answers to these Sequim real estate questions. So if you cannot find your answer, you can email ChuckMarunde@gmail.com or call or text 360-775-5424.

There is no more thorough and authoritative source than these for all your Sequim real estate questions.

Sequim real estate maps and documents are hard to find online.  The Internet addresses for these Sequim maps are impossible to remember, especially the long government websites that don’t have logical names.  I’ve collected some of the most useful links to Sequim real estate maps so you can easily find all the information you need on particular properties.

1.  Tax Assessor’s Site is packed full of useful information on their Sequim maps where you can look up any home or vacant real estate in the county by address, name, or tax parcel number.

Sequim Real Estate Maps:  Clallam County Tax Assessor’s Site

You may be interested in reading this article about How to Use the Tax Assessor’s Website.

2.  The County Parcel Maps have a tremendous amount of information available at your fingertips. You can look at Sequim maps showing boundaries and dozens of selectable map features (roads, streams, lakes, tribes, DNR land, the Discovery Trail, city and county boundaries, etc.).  By the way, the county programming on this Sequim real estate map will not load the map if your browser is sized too large. If it doesn’t load properly, reduce the size of your browser on your monitor.  This is true for all the county online maps.

Sequim Maps:  Clallam County Parcel Maps

3.  The County Boundary Maps are where you can see many more specific pieces of information about a property by selecting options in the right margin, like which irrigation district a parcel is in, school districts, hospital districts, precincts, fire districts, and so on. This looks very similar to the last map, but they are different.  On the last map, for example, you won’t see irrigation districts.

Sequim Real Estate Maps:  County Boundary Maps

4.  The Parcel Status is where you can see the complete status of a property on all county issues. You can find out on this page if the land is included in the Dungeness Water Management area. You type in the tax parcel number and hit search, and up comes a screen with a link on the parcel number, and when you go to that link, you’ll get a page full of more information and links on documents effecting that parcel.  Copy and paste this tax parcel number (033029550130) into the page below, and you’ll have an excellent example of the information you can see.  All tax parcel numbers in this system must be typed with exactly 12 digits.  If you have more zeros, delete them.

Sequim Real Estate Status:  Parcel Status

5. The County Auditor’s site includes all recorded real estate documents. This is where you can look at warranty deeds, deeds of trust, foreclosure notices (Notice of Trustee’s Sale), CC&Rs (Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions), plats, and much more.

Sequim Real Estate Documents:  Real Estate Recordings

These Sequim real estate maps are very useful when you’re thinking about buying a property.  You need to know about the property restrictions and what you can and cannot do.  If your property will have a private well, you need to know if you’re in the water management rule that restricts residential use to 150 gallons per day for an entire family. If you will have a mini-farm or animals, you may want to be within one of our irrigation districts so you can have access to more water from April 15 to Sept 15.

There’s no way to memorize these url’s.  They’re too long and not intuitive, so be sure to book mark this page for future reference.

Sequim real estate sales typically slow down in the coldest winter months, but if you were thinking that buyers quit coming and stop buying during the winter months, think again. I’m showing houses today, the coldest day so far this winter. Here it is 36 degrees F, and I have buyers arriving during the coming weeks all the way up to Christmas day. Granted, it slows down, but it does not stop. Why are buyers still arriving and buying? I’ll tell you why.

Sequim Real Estate in Winter

The retirement timeline is not controlled by the weather, and apart from long term retirement planning, people have a retirement date that is set on the calendar. Some will choose to retire later than planned by one or two years because of the economy or other financial considerations, but by and large people retire based on their own calendar. Retirement dates differ, so people retire every day of the calendar year, and that means people come to look at Sequim real estate when it is convenient for them. That may be prior to that magic day on the calendar, or it may be after, but come they do throughout the year. Even in the winter months Clallam County will normally have at least one home selling every week day.

Sequim Real Estate in Summer

Sequim real estate sales do pick up in late February or March and then the market is pretty busy through September in the fall. But why do retirees buy homes from October through February? Because they know that there is less competition, and if they wait until the spring, the ideal home they want will most likely will be sold. So they plan, they shop, and at the right time they buy, regardless of what month that is. That’s why Sequim real estate keeps selling all year long.

Sequim real estate is moving, as in selling. Water views are in demand as they always have been. A nice water view in a nice area with a nice three bedroom home all on one level, and priced reasonably, is a rare find in this market. A panoramic mountain view is to die for, and while we do have plenty of mountain views, a great mountain is rare. There is plenty of Sequim real estate with a peek-a-boo water view or peek-a-boo mountain view, but not many with the kind of view that makes you sigh.

Sequim Real Estate Selling

The home in this photo recently sold. It was a modern home, almost like something out of a Homes and Garden Magazine, and it would be right at home in Beverly Hills or some exclusive place in California. But it was in Sequim up in the mountains on 15 acres with a barn. What a gorgeous piece of Sequim real estate. Okay, this would not be everyone’s cup of tea, but for these buyers, it is a piece of Heaven. The mountain view is unbelievable. Well, let me show it to you.

Sequim Real Estate and Mountains

This stunning Sequim mountain view would be hard to take every day, wouldn’t it? This is what you see from the living room and dining room and kitchen and sunroom. This buyer is very fortunate. With 15 fenced acres, horses can play and feed to their hearts’ delight. Granted, not homes are this perfect, but have you been to Sequim lately? Come and see some Sequim real estate and see for yourself.