What kind of lifestyle can you expect from Gig Harbor?

The answer for me was a better lifestyle, a storybook lifestyle.

Living in Gig Harbor is like being on vacation all the time.

Gig Harbor is 45 minutes away from Seatac International Airport and about 2 hours away from Portland. Seattle is about an hour and Tacoma is 15 minutes. There are a large variety of restaurants, major league sports teams, and the Arts are well represented.

Sure, there are plenty of places that offer the great outdoors and airports and sports and entertainment but Gig Harbor is different. Gig Harbor was a small fishing village. It has grown but has been able to hang onto its old world charm. Very few people are able to visit this town without falling in love with it.

If you are familiar with the Bay Area, The City of Gig Harbor feels like Sausalito did about 25 years ago and the Gig Harbor area is sprawling like Marin County. By the way, the prices will probably follow Marin County in a similar manner.

Gig Harbor, Washington, was named by Captain Charles Wilkes, commander of the American Exploration Expedition of 1838-1842. Wilkes' crew was charting the area from a gig (a small boat) and a longboat when they sought shelter in the Gig Harbor Bay during a storm. The crew began calling our area "small harbor" and "gig harbor."
Things have changed slightly since the Expedition named our charming harbor. With a city population of 6,500 and growing, Gig Harbor boasts a vibrant economy with inviting accommodations, interesting shopping, scrumptious dining, colorful cultural arts, playful recreation, and diverse professional and personal services.

What can you expect from this web site?

GigHarborProperties.com is a real estate website that has a variety of ways to search the mls. There are several searches in place such as view homes, waterfront homes, and Gig Harbor homes for sale. There are also mls searches for multi-family, Business Opportunities, and Commercial/Industrial real estate. Make sure to check out the featured listings page as well. There is a feature within the IDX search system called “Search Saver”. Search Saver is a buyer instant notification system that sends out email to all subscribers when a property is listed that matches their search criteria. You can also save your favorite listings and email them to your friends.

Every week we analyze the condition of the Gig Harbor Real Estate market by price range and post a report called the Market Condition Report. We also include the absorption rate (the amount of time it would take for all the properties in a price range to sell, assuming no other properties were listed. Another description of the absorption rate might be “months of inventory”. If you would like to be notified when this report is updated, please subscribe for notification.

There are a few different maps; the most popular is the interactive map to search the mls. There is also a map that shows the mls area numbers of Gig Harbor, and the Gig Harbor public school boundaries.

There is a Gig Harbor information section that links to another web site called Gig HarborRealEstate.com

The crime rate in Gig Harbor is so low compared to other cites that we posted a report that compares Gig Harbors’ crime rate to Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia.
There are school reports that include SAT scores, the Gig Harbor public and private schools and a variety of school related information. There are demographic reports that include income, age, population, household characteristics, and employment.

If you want to know how much your home is worth we are happy too send you a list of homes for sale and homes that have sold that are in your neighborhood or similar to your home. This will give you an idea of what your home is worth. I am also happy to meet with you personally to discuss the value of your home and how to go about selling your it. We have put our marketing plan online for sellers to see what we do to get homes sold.

If you are thinking about buying a home you will want to take a look at our home buying services. There is a lot involved in buying a home and we can stream line the process for you.

We have put together a relocation package that is very helpful to newcomers and we are happy to send it to you. It includes “What you can expect from a Gig Harbor Lifestyle”, navigating Gig Harbor, demographics, shopping, private schools, public schools, churches, lodging, restaurants, recreation, things to do, things for kids to do, new to the area utility information, medical facilities, construction of the new hospital, and the Narrows Bridge project.

There is a bit of information about me – Mike Esteb and a bunch of testimonials from people who have worked with me and wanted to share their experience.

I put together a "homes for rent" section that has all the property management companies in Gig Harbor along with their inventory. This is one place on the web that probably has the most detailed list of Gig Harbor homes for rent.

Finally, the Gig Harbor photo story; It takes about 5 minutes but it is well worth it. This photo tour does a pretty good job of showing the different personalities of Gig Harbor and you get to listen to Santana in the background.

Thank you for visiting GigHarborProperties.com.