Oakes Ave · Selling Your Home
Selling Your Home in the Oakes Ave Corridor, Anacortes
A pricing strategy built on your net, a 360° marketing campaign paid for up front, and weekly reporting so you always know where things stand.
Selling your home in Oakes Ave, and which side of the road it sits on
Selling your home in Oakes Ave is two different jobs depending on which side of the road you own. Oakes Avenue is the state highway spur running from 12th Street along Guemes Channel, past the airport, out to Sunset Avenue and the Washington State Ferries terminal at Ship Harbor. Water-side lots sit on the channel. Hill-side lots look over the road at it. Those two properties do not price the same way, they do not photograph the same way, and they do not sell to the same buyer.
What you get from me is a number built on your net rather than a headline, a full marketing campaign I fund up front, and a weekly written update until it closes. Three pricing strategies, not one flattering figure. The free EPIC™ Home-Selling Report lays those three out for your address, with the comparable sales they rest on, so you can decide with numbers in front of you instead of impressions.
Why Oakes Ave sellers choose DiAnn Sager
I am DiAnn Sager, a broker with RE/MAX Gateway in Anacortes. I was licensed in January 2018, I have closed 125 homes and more than $72 million in sales since, and I am a lifelong North Puget Sound local whose family roots on Fidalgo Island go back generations. More useful to you: I have sold on this corridor. In 2024 I represented the seller of a 2015 home in the Portalis West condominium above Ship Harbor, a property the county records with a partial marine view.
A partial view is a phrase that gets abused in listings, and it is the single easiest way to lose a buyer's trust on this road. When I write the copy for a home here, the view claim matches what the property actually has, and the photography is shot to show it rather than to imply something larger. Honest wording sells faster on this corridor than optimistic wording does, because the buyer is standing on the deck within a week of reading it.
Sharon Moore's words: "She goes above and beyond, and truly cares about and protects her clients throughout the process." Protecting a seller on Oakes Avenue mostly means refusing to overstate the thing the buyer is going to verify in person. Tell me which side of the road you are on and we will take it from there.
How a listing on the corridor actually runs
Pricing comes first, and on this road it comes from a narrow set of sales. A water-side lot on the channel is compared to water-side lots. A hill-side home with a partial marine view is compared to homes with the same honest description, which is a much smaller pool than every sale in Anacortes. Building that comparison carefully is where most of the money on this corridor is either made or given away.
Production is scheduled around the water and the light. Professional photography, drone, and walkthrough video capture the channel at the hour it reads best, and the drone work matters more here than almost anywhere else in town because it is the only way to show a buyer the relationship between the house, the road, and the water.
Showing logistics are a real part of the plan on Oakes Avenue. Summer Friday ferry lines wrap around the terminal and out onto the highway, and a buyer sitting in that traffic on the way to your house is a buyer arriving in the wrong mood. We set showing windows that avoid the worst of it and we tell the truth about it in the marketing rather than letting a buyer discover it alone.
Then the campaign launches as one timed event, with the listing, the video, the paid digital advertising, and the neighbor outreach all firing together. That is the impact step. After launch, you get an honest written report every week, including the quiet weeks, until we close. The whole method sits on my selling your home page.
What a buyer on Oakes Avenue is really shopping for
The corridor sells on the channel and the ferry, and those two things carry most of the price. The Guemes Channel Trail runs roughly a mile from the Edwards Way cul-de-sac toward town, with community efforts under way to link Washington Park to the Tommy Thompson trail. Roadside Park sits at Jackson and Oakes. The Ship Harbor Interpretive Preserve holds 25 acres of freshwater wetland, 5 acres of upland, and about 2,000 feet of sandy beach with eelgrass. Washington Park is 220 acres out at the west end.
Named places do more work in a listing than adjectives ever will, because a buyer choosing this corridor over the middle of town is choosing the trail, the preserve, and the park by name. The Anacortes School District serves the whole city, and attendance areas are set by the district.
The trade-off is the road itself, and it is not a secret. Oakes Avenue carries the ferry traffic on summer weekends and Friday afternoons, and water-side and hill-side lots feel that differently and price differently because of it. A seller who puts that on the table early keeps the negotiation clean. A seller who hides it hands the buyer a reason to reprice the house during the inspection period.
Where selling your home in Oakes Ave starts
Start with the Oakes Ave neighborhood page to see how this stretch reads to somebody who does not live on it yet. If your home sits up the hill in the grid instead, selling on the Westside uses a different set of comparable sales, and if you are closer to the marina end, selling in Skyline is its own conversation again.
The number that matters is your net, not the list price on the sign. DiAnn Sager, RE/MAX Gateway, Anacortes. Helping navigate your next move.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a water-side lot on Oakes Avenue sell for more than a hill-side one?
Usually, and the gap is bigger than most owners expect. Water-side lots sit on Guemes Channel; hill-side lots look over the road at it. They draw different buyers and they price against different comparable sales, which is why I never price a home here off a general Anacortes average.
How should a partial marine view be described in the listing?
Exactly as it is. The county recorded a partial marine view on the Portalis West home I sold in 2024, and that is what the marketing said. A buyer verifies a view claim within a week of reading it, so an honest description protects both the price and the negotiation.
Will ferry traffic slow down my sale?
Not if we plan around it. Summer Friday afternoons bring lines that wrap the terminal and reach the highway, so we set showing windows outside those hours and say plainly in the marketing that the road is the route to the boats. Buyers who choose this corridor have already weighed it.
What does it cost me to market a home on this corridor?
Nothing up front. Photography, drone, video, the single-property page, and the digital advertising are part of the listing and I pay for them. You approve the plan and keep the home showable; the campaign is on me.
Oakes Ave
What selling your home looks like in Oakes Ave
The Oakes Avenue corridor on the way out toward the ferry.
The full picture of the place, the homes, and the trade-offs is in the Oakes Ave area guide.
The method
How we do it in Oakes Ave
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