Sell a Home in Portland
Top 1% Seller's Agent
Planning on selling a home in the next year or so? You've come to the right place. Stephen FitzMaurice, Principal Broker is a top 1% sellers agent in Portland with over 2,000 local sales under his belt and writes extensively about the Portland real estate market.
The Right Way to Sell
Our team charges 4% commission max. and we pay more online to market our Portland and SW Washington homes so they sell faster and for more. (In Salem and Bend areas we charge 4.5% max.) We have a reasonable commission fee, while still providing more marketing and services than our competitors. We back it all up with a cancel anytime policy for no charge.
If you’re thinking of selling your home in the next twelve months, Stephen would love to tour your home. Call today to set an appointment.
Stephen FitzMaurice, Realtor
4% Max. to Sell a Home
Cancel Anytime Policy
Licensed Since 2003
503-714-1111
Selling and Buying a Home at the Same Time
Need to sell a home and buy one in the Portland metro region all at the same time? You’re not alone. In fact, according to Zillow’s 2018 Consumer Housing Trends Report, 60% of home sellers are also home buyers. “Synchronous sellers” is the term they used, and if the words immediately bring to mind an […]
Rain Barrels, Rain Gardens for your Portland Home
Did you know that Portland gets an average of 37 inches of rain per year? That’s a lot of storm water! To make matters worse, in the early 19th century when Portland was being constructed, planners followed the standard practice of putting all wastewater into a combined system. That means that household sewage and regular […]
Five Tips for Holiday Home Staging in Portland
Selling a home during the holidays? There are some special challenges this time of year. Among them: The fine art of home staging. Buyers’ agents agree that staged homes sell faster than unstaged homes, but, according to a study by the National Association of Realtors, “Where things get interesting is that 38 percent of buyers’ […]
Portland Home Staging Tips – Make a Small Home Feel Spacious
Portland real estate activity sees a definite slowdown in the wintertime. Coupled with a cooling seller’s market overall — some markets are in fact favoring buyers — sellers are going to need to work a little harder. Thankfully, there’s the art of home staging. It’s more popular than ever in Portland, the best way to […]
Portland Floor Plans Sell Homes
Portland buyers these days are more likely than ever to see a floor plan for any given home. That’s because with the new Home Energy Score policy, many homeowners are getting a complimentary floor plan with their energy score and passing it on to potential buyers. Home Buyers Want to See Floor Plans The National […]
Interior Paint Colors to Boost Portland Home Value
Portland home sellers: If you didn’t already know, a new coat of paint is a great home improvement project to impress buyers. Fresh paint, applied skillfully and with attention to detail, can make a home look brand-new and up-to-date without breaking the bank. In my experience as a top 1% Portland real estate agent, nothing […]
How many showings does it take to sell a home? 2018 Update
RMLS, our local multiple listing service, puts out a ton of useful data on home showings and more, and can help put the Portland real estate market into perspective. RMLS covers SW Washington and most of northern Oregon, all the way from the coast to the far east. It fully covers the Portland real estate […]
Portland Fall Lawn Care and Staging Guide
Do you drool over Portland real estate listing photos with lush, beautiful lawns in front of the house? Guess what, so do buyers. Here’s our agent-approved guide to growing the best lawn on the block this fall. Fall Lawn Care for Portland Homes Many Portland homeowners let their lawn go brown in the summer through […]
Paint a Portland Home Exterior this Color – Sell for More
Those repainting the exterior of their home before putting it on the Portland real estate market would do well selecting something close to “greige”. At least, that’s what a new report by Zillow suggests. Zillow’s mighty research arm reached into its archives to pull out 135,000 photos of homes that sold in the past year, […]
Portland Real Estate Guide to Smart Home Tech
“Alexa, sell my home faster and above Portland market value,” may not yet be a command your smart home device understands (and we doubt that AI will ever fill the shoes of an experienced real estate agent), but the Internet of Things is definitely shaping the way we buy and sell homes. In this tech […]
2019 Portland ADU Guide – Additional Dwelling Units, How To
The movement to accessorize Portland with accessory dwelling units (ADUs) is growing. Portland is now one of the “friendliest” places in the United States to build an ADU, defined as a self-contained living space — whether detached in the backyard or incorporated into the existing building footprint. Why are ADUs so hot in Portland? Portland […]
How long does it take to sell a home in Portland? 2018 Update
The answer is probably a lot longer than you think and with the Portland real estate market cooling, that number is about to get a lot longer, likely increasing each year for the next few years. Before I get to the answer of how long it takes to sell a home in Portland, I’d like […]
Portland Home Sellers’ Guide: To Fix or Not to Fix?
If you’re planning on putting your home on the Portland market before the Portland real estate summer market is over, you may be looking around wondering, “What do I need to upgrade, repair or fix?” For most sellers, home repairs fall into three main categories: Getting the home into a condition that the home appraiser […]
My Portland Home is Not Selling. What do I do?
Since 2012 and until 2017 the Portland real estate market has been booming. Most would say that in 2018 the Portland housing boom is over! The real estate market is cooling off fast, in many areas and housing types (but not all). Read this article to find out what is really happening in the real […]
Portland Home Sellers: Closing Checklist
We expect to see a lot of closings happen in Portland real estate market this summer, after 4,665 homes were listed in May 2018. According to the May RMLS report, “This was the strongest May for new listings since 2008, when 5,182 were offered in the month.” With the average number of days on market […]
10 Tips to Selling a Luxury Home in Portland 2018
Top-of-the-line appliances, thirty foot high ceilings, a mother-in-law apartment, two acres of landscaping — if this sounds like your home, consider these tips before you put it on the Portland real estate market. Price it right. Selling a luxury home is different than selling a typical 3 bedroom, 2 bath home in Portland. Sellers often […]
Stephen uses his broad knowledge of the market and his well-polished marketing skills to list houses at the maximum they can and will sell for. He is extremely adept at orchestrating all of the selling details and I look forward to doing business with him again.
Ben
