A plan to buy
This home located on Parkside Place in Ephrata is currently listed for just under $440,000. The inventory of homes throughout the Columbia Basin is tight, real estate experts said, but being prepared with proper financing and an idea of what you’re looking for can go a long way in smoothing out the homebuying process.
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This Ephrata home is up for sale and features an open floor plan, which has been popular recently. Pre-shopping for features like open floor plans, single story homes or a particular number of bedrooms to have a list of prospective homes to choose from can help a real estate agent guide homebuyers as they navigate a tight market with relatively low inventory.
While a color palette in a home may be fairly neutral, buyers should remember that a neutral palette is a clean canvas for the colors they want in their homes and other amenities may be more important to focus on.
Staci Faw is a real estate agent with Windermere Real Estate in Ephrata. Her advice to new homebuyers is that they go through the process of pre-approval in order to understand next steps in purchasing a home.
Scott Adams is an agent at Windermere Real Estate in Ephrata and said gathering all the right documents prior to applying for a mortgage can help smooth out that process.
EPHRATA – The housing inventory in the Columbia Basin is tight, but preparing ahead of time can make the process of buying one of the homes that is available a lot easier.
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