Residential broker · Spokane, Washington
I sell houses in four neighborhoods, and only four.
Most of what I sell was built before 1940 and sits within a four-mile ride of my own porch. That is not a marketing angle. It is the only way I can tell you what a foundation crack on a 1912 basalt footing actually costs, before you write the offer.
Where I actually work
If your house is in Liberty Lake or Cheney, I am the wrong broker and I will say so on the first call. Here is what I know well enough to be useful about.
Big lots, old trees, and the widest spread between a house that has been maintained and one that has been painted. Knob-and-tube is still in some attics. I bring a flashlight to every showing up here and I climb into the crawlspace, because the inspection comes after your offer, not before it.
Where most of my first-time buyers land. Small, sound, and close enough to the Thursday market that people stay put for twenty years. The competition here is other buyers, not other listings, so we talk about your financing before we talk about houses.
Beautiful and complicated. A good share of these were divided into apartments in the sixties and put back together, or half put back together, since. I will tell you which of the two you are standing in.
Smaller houses, flatter lots, and the only part of my map where a buyer on a single income still has real choices. Garages here were built for a 1953 sedan, which matters more than people expect.
Selected listings
Mine, not a feed. Each one is a house I have walked, measured and can answer questions about without looking anything up.
3 bed · 1 bath · 1,290 sq ft · Built 1921
Original fir floors under the carpet in two rooms — I pulled a corner up and photographed it. Furnace is nine years old. The awnings come off in about an hour if they are not your taste.
$419,000
4 bed · 2 bath · 2,040 sq ft · Built 1916
Under contract as of last Tuesday. Left up because two people asked me this week whether anything like it exists. It does, about twice a year, and I will call you when the next one does.
$598,000
4 bed · 3 bath · 2,760 sq ft · Built 2006
Sold nineteen days after listing, below what I asked. Included because you should be able to see what I priced wrong as easily as what I priced right.
$675,000
This is not a search portal, and I am not going to pretend it is. Three houses will never be the market. Tell me what you are looking for and I will set up a live MLS search that mails you every new match the morning it hits — that tool already exists and it is better than anything I could build here.
What happens next
Most people call me third, after they have already fallen for a house. Calling first is cheaper.
The number you want and the number the house will bring are usually about four weeks of work apart.
About
I came to this out of title work, which is an unglamorous way in and the reason I read the whole disclosure packet instead of the summary. I do not have junior agents showing houses under my name. If you hire me, the person at the showing is me, and the person on the phone at nine on a Sunday is also me. That caps how many clients I can take at once, which is the trade.
Get in touch
Tell me roughly where you are in this — still reading listings at midnight, or under contract and worried. Both are fine places to start from.
Halden Vale Realty, Spokane, WA