Founder/Broker, Paramount Real Estate Group. 1,000+ homes across Kitsap, Pierce and Mason counties, averaged across every transaction since 2001.
99.18%
of list price, on average. I protect your price. Most agents cannot quote a figure at all.
$644,670selling, at my 99.18% average
$620,620buying, at my 95.48% average
On this price, one point of list is $6,500. These are my averages applied to your number, not a quote on your home, and an average is not a promise.
Get the real number on your homeThe price you get is decided long before an offer arrives. It is decided by what the home looks like on day one and how it is priced against the comparables nobody else read carefully.
Our own construction crews do the work that moves a number. Then the listing goes out with photography, video, and a launch plan rather than a sign in the yard. That is how 99.18% happens.
Winning a house is not about bidding highest. It is about writing the offer the seller can actually say yes to, and knowing which ones they cannot.
A thousand closings means I have seen how these decisions get made from the other side of the table. Buyers I represent close at 95.48% of list on average, which is money that stays in your pocket.
14594 NW Tree Top LaneSeabeck, WA (opens in a new tab)
14198 Olalla Crest Lane SEOlalla, WA (opens in a new tab)
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1501 E Old Ranch RdAllyn, WA (opens in a new tab)“He got our offer acceptedover everyone else’s,even though we weren’t the highest bidder.”
“I put my trust in James, not only for his calm, reassuring manner, but for his actions from day one to closing. My home sold faster than I expected in a difficult market, and at the price I aspired to.”
“The best realtor I have ever worked with. He's helped us buy and sell multiple times, and we'll keep working with him.”
“No high-pressure tactics, just straightforward advice and a clear plan. He explained every step in plain English.”
Most of this page is numbers. This is the other half of the decision, which is whether you want to spend six months talking to this person. Sound on.
Most agents hand you a list of vendors and hope. When the deck needs replacing before we list, or the house becomes a rental after you move, the people doing that work are on our payroll.
A relocation channel about what it actually costs and actually feels like to live on this side of the water. Ferries, commutes, taxes, weather, the parts a listing photo will not tell you.
Most people pick a town from a photo. 5:38 on the affordability gap, the real commute math, and the honest reasons not to move.
Three things people think and rarely say out loud. Here they are, with the honest answer to each.
It is, and it is agreed in writing before you sign anything. The number that decides your year is not the rate, though. It is what you walk away with, and that is set by the list price, the condition, and how the negotiation goes.
Homes I list sell at an average of 99.18% of list price. The gap between a sale at 99% and one at 93% is usually larger than the whole commission line.
Then one of two things is wrong, price or presentation, and both are fixable. What you get is a straight answer about which one it is, including when the honest answer is that the price was too high.
Paramount Construction and Design does the pre-sale work with our own crews, so the list of what is worth doing reaches you with real costs and a real schedule instead of a referral.
No. The listing conversation, the pricing call and the negotiation are all me. There is a team behind the coordination, and the decisions stay with me.
The clearest evidence is repeat business: several of the people quoted on this site have bought and sold with me more than once.
Seven steps, run in order, because each one is what makes the next possible. It is how I build the business and how Paramount builds agents.
Be here. Be whole. Be ready.
Your network is your net worth. Build it on trust.
Get better before you get bigger.
See it before you build it.
Vision without action is just a dream.
Your story is someone else's strategy.
Live every level with intention.
No income tax on wages, but a 9.57% average sales tax, a gas tax that rises every July, a graduated excise tax when you sell, and a $210 fast ferry pass on a shrinking schedule. The ten budget questions behind "is Washington expensive," answered for Kitsap, Pierce, and Mason counties, plus the $1 million income tax on this week's ballot.
Kitsap County had 795 active listings in October 2026, up 25.99% from a year earlier, while pending listings fell 5.71% and the median listing price fell 3.51%, per Realtor.com. Here are the Kitsap, Pierce and Mason inventory numbers and what they mean for sellers and buyers this fall.
Kitsap requires a Property Conveyance Inspection, Pierce a Report of System Status, and Mason an O&M report within 12 months of the sale. A statewide inspection at transfer starts February 1, 2027. What each county requires, how long it takes, and the order to do it in before you list.
When you work with James and his team, here’s what you can expect:
Paramount is about ~95 agents across three counties, built around people rather than production boards. The process above is how that is done, and it has a page of its own.
