Contacting Medina realtors is the first item on your list, if you're looking at property in this small and affluent Puget Sound community. Word of mouth, your own research, and local friends aren't enough to crack into a tough and tight market. Property isn't on the market long enough, for a start.

You're not--by the way--talking about any stereotypical and fly-by-night encyclopedia salesmen, as a 1950s movie or your imagination might portray. The state of Washington takes training its realty professionals very seriously--whether agents for larger cities like Seattle and Spokane, or more specialized agents like North Bend or Medina realtors. The benefits of finding a compatible expert among the Medina realtors you screen, you'll realize are significant.

On your own, you might easily miss an opportunity, and, in the realty world, they don't come all that often. You'll be working with a highly trained professional who has 24/7 access to a market he or she has worked in for years. Once you sit down and determine the details of what you're looking for in a property, and your spending limit and mortgage arrangements, you'll have enough time to shoulder all the many aspects of a relocation and new property that you can't (and don't want to) farm out.

Medina Realtors and the Community

Nestled on the eastern shore of Lake Washington, Medina sits just below the Overland Golf and Country Club on Maydenbauer Bay, convenient to Seattle and the entire Puget Sound region. Its well-educated population of approximately 3,000 has a median age of 42, which is marginally older than the average for the region. Don't be daunted by the "average" selling price of just over $2 million. You'll find as many houses in Medina proper selling for between $500,000 and $1 million as you will for more than that. Your selection widens as you edge into Maple Valley, which has much the same characteristics of Medina.