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Selling Your Home in Sunset, 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 Sunset, at the far west end of the island
Selling your home in Sunset means selling the last streets in Anacortes. This is the west end, off Sunset Avenue between the Skyline plats and the Washington Park entrance at 6300 Sunset Avenue, and it is a park neighborhood rather than a marina neighborhood. People choose it for the park and for the west light. Both of those belong in the marketing, and neither of them shows up in a spreadsheet of square footage.
What you get is a price built on your net rather than a number chosen to win the listing, a marketing campaign I fund up front, and an honest written report every week until it closes. Three pricing strategies, not one. The free EPIC™ Home-Selling Report puts those three in front of you with the sales behind them, which is the only way to make this decision with your eyes open.
Why Sunset sellers choose DiAnn Sager
I am DiAnn Sager, a broker with RE/MAX Gateway in Anacortes, and I grew up on this island. Verified client reviews put me among the top five Anacortes agents in 2026 on rate-my-agent.com, and my Google Business Profile rating is 5.0. I would rather those came from clients than from a plaque, and they did.
On Sunset Avenue I have been in the houses. In 2025 I represented a buyer on a 1924 home on a 0.15-acre lot in Wood's Addition to Anacortes, a property the county describes as having a minimal view of Burrows Bay. That single sale contains the two things that decide most prices out here: an older home, where condition is the conversation, and a view the county itself calls minimal, where the wording in the listing has to match what a buyer sees from the window.
Overstating a west-end view is the fastest way to lose a buyer's trust on this street, because they drive out here specifically to look at it. Honest wording sells faster than optimistic wording, every time. Tell me about your house and we will look at both the condition and the view before we talk about a number.
How a Sunset listing runs
Preparation comes first, and on older housing stock that means an honest condition walk before a single photograph. We go through the house together, sort the work that returns more than it costs from the work that just feels productive, and bring in a stager, an electrician, or a contractor only where it pays. Then the price gets built from genuinely comparable west-end sales rather than a citywide average.
Production is scheduled for the light, and out here that is the whole point of the neighborhood. Photography and video get shot late in the day when the west light is doing the work, and drone footage carries the relationship between the house, the park, and the water in a way interior photography never will.
The campaign positions the home against the park rather than against the marina. A buyer choosing this end of Anacortes is choosing Washington Park at the end of the road, and the listing, the video, the single-property page, and the paid advertising all say that in the same voice at the same time. That coordinated launch is the impact step.
Afterward you get a written weekly update until closing, including the weeks with nothing to report, and a refreshed market read each month. I pay for the campaign. You approve the plan and keep the house showable. The whole method sits on my selling your home page.
What the west end offers a buyer, by name
Washington Park is the reason most people look here. It covers 220 acres jutting into Rosario Strait, with a 2.3-mile loop road along the Green Point shoreline, the Sunset Beach boat launch and picnic shelter, 68 campsites, and the Green Point pullouts and Burrows Bay viewpoint. The Skyline Marine Center at 2011 Skyline Way is the nearest moorage and boat service. Those two names do more work in a listing out here than any adjective could.
Getting to town means Sunset Avenue and Oakes Avenue east past the ferry terminal to 12th Street and downtown, so every trip to town or the mainland crosses the whole island. The Anacortes School District serves the city, with Fidalgo, Island View, and Mount Erie elementary schools, Anacortes Middle School, Anacortes High School, and Cap Sante High School. Attendance areas are set by the district and I will get the current answer for your address rather than guess at it.
The trade-off is the distance, and it is not worth hiding. This is the farthest west you can live in Anacortes, and the buyer who wants that is a specific buyer. Reaching them is a targeting problem, which is exactly what the paid campaign is for.
It is also worth separating the two kinds of housing stock out here, because they price differently. Skagit County Assessor records for the pocket of streets between Skyline and Washington Park, Sands Way, Sugarloaf Street, Parkside Drive, and Curtis Court, show homes built predominantly between 1976 and 1998 on standard suburban lots of roughly 0.17 to 0.31 acre. That is an established late-1970s through 1990s subdivision, and it is a different condition conversation from the older homes along the Sunset Avenue corridor itself, like the 1924 house I worked on. Settling which of the two your home belongs to is the first move in building a comparable set that holds up. On the county's books those streets are the Skyline No. 1, 2, and 16 plats, inside the Skyline Property Owners Association, so the association's documents are part of your listing file from the start.
Utilities are worth one more check out here. The assessor shows these parcels on piped water, and some of the older homes on the Sunset Avenue frontage on septic even inside the city limits. If your home is one of them, the septic record is one of the first documents we assemble, because a buyer's lender will ask and an unanswered utility question stalls a transaction faster than almost anything else.
Where selling your home in Sunset starts
Start with the Sunset neighborhood page to see how the west end reads to somebody who has not driven out here yet. If your home sits closer to the water on the marina side, selling in Skyline uses a different comparable set, and if you are back along the highway spur, selling on the Oakes Avenue corridor is a different conversation again.
Sell smart, don't guess. DiAnn Sager, RE/MAX Gateway, Anacortes. Helping navigate your next move.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does being at the far west end hurt my sale price?
It narrows the buyer pool rather than lowering the value. Someone choosing this end of Anacortes wants Washington Park at the end of the road, so the campaign is built to find that buyer specifically instead of advertising to the whole town and hoping.
How should a Burrows Bay view be described in my listing?
Exactly as it is. On the 1924 Sunset Avenue home I worked on, the county called the view of Burrows Bay minimal, and copy that says otherwise gets caught the moment a buyer stands at the window. Accurate wording protects the price during negotiation.
Do older homes out here need work before listing?
Some do, and the walk-through tells us which. We separate the repairs that return more than they cost from the ones that only feel productive, then bring in a local stager or trade where the return is real. A full remodel is almost never the right answer.
What is my Sunset home worth?
It comes down to condition and to what your particular lot sees, and the west end has a small enough comparable pool that a citywide average will mislead you. The free EPIC™ Report gives you three pricing strategies for your address with the sales they are built on.
Sunset
What selling your home looks like in Sunset
An Anacortes neighborhood DiAnn works regularly.
The full picture of the place, the homes, and the trade-offs is in the Sunset area guide.
The method
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