James Bergstrom, Founder/Broker, Paramount Real Estate Group. Buying and selling across Kitsap, Pierce & Mason Counties, WA.
Averaged across every transaction since 2001, in every kind of market. Most agents cannot quote a figure at all.
The 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.
Get your home valuedWinning 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.
Find your townOr search listings (opens in a new tab)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.
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.
He got our offer accepted over everyone else's, even though we weren't the highest bidder.
The best realtor I have ever worked with. He's helped us buy and sell multiple times, and we'll keep working with him.
Olalla, WA
$2,485,000 · Waterfront · 4,566 sq ft
Brand-new waterfront home with 88 feet of Colvos Passage shoreline, tideland rights and a private mooring buoy.
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Gig Harbor, WA
$1,477,777 · 3 bed · 2.5 bath · 2,904 sq ft · 7 acres
Seven secluded acres, finished new in 2026, vaulted on exposed beams.
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Port Orchard, WA
$849,777 · 3 bed · 1.75 bath · 3,018 sq ft
Timeless brick Contemporary in McCormick Woods, with a main-level primary suite.
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Allyn, WA
$577,777 · 3 bed · 2.75 bath · 2,115 sq ft
Golf-course living in Lakeland Village with true main-floor living.
(opens in a new tab)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 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.
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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.
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.
One call, no pitch. Bring the address or bring the question.
(360) 777-7212
