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Service Real Estate Boutique brokerage providing concierge-like real estate services to clients throughout Alaska

Buying and selling a home is a major financial decision and that’s why it’s important that you choose the right REALTOR®. When you partner with me, Carrie Schliesing with Service Real Estate, I’ll provide you with concierge-like services to help you make your dreams a reality. I make selling a smooth process by offering professional staging and photography services. And I make it my priority to ensure that your buying experience is efficient by going above and beyond from start to closing. So if you’re in the Anchorage community or surrounding areas and need your real estate goals reached then let me work for you.

If you were to ask me if it is a bad time to list. Here is the answer I would give, and this time I am putting last mont...
10/21/2026

If you were to ask me if it is a bad time to list. Here is the answer I would give, and this time I am putting last month right next to it.

ANCHORAGE
6 new, 211 pending, 265 active

EAGLE RIVER AND CHUGIAK
1 new, 53 pending, 57 active

WASILLA, PALMER AND SURROUNDING
11 new, 249 pending, 577 active

Six weeks ago there were 605 homes under contract across Southcentral. Today it is 513. So yes, it slowed down, and I am not going to tell you otherwise.

But look at what did not happen. Inventory did not pile up. Active listings went from 929 to 899, and there were eighteen new listings across all three areas. Eighteen. Eagle River had one.

A slow market with nothing behind it is a very different animal from a market falling apart. Buyers slowed down. Houses did not stack up.

So is it a bad time to list? Not if your house is one of the few people can actually buy.

Want to know what this means for your house or your budget? Let us talk.

The mountains have had their dusting and the light is going. Anchorage loses roughly five and a half minutes of daylight...
10/15/2026

The mountains have had their dusting and the light is going.

Anchorage loses roughly five and a half minutes of daylight a day right now. By the end of October it is down to about eight and a half. You do not notice it week to week, and then one evening you walk out to the truck and it is already full dark.

This is the season Alaskans quietly sort themselves. Some people settle in. Some people buy a headlamp and carry on.

It is also the season you find out what a neighborhood is actually made of. Who runs a plow down the shared driveway without being asked. Who checks on the house at the end of the road when the owners are Outside. None of that shows up on a listing sheet, and it is exactly why we ask so many questions before we send anyone to go look at a house.

Rates moved up again. The 30 year fixed is averaging 7.40 percent, up from 7.28 last week and 6.30 a year ago. The 15 ye...
10/12/2026

Rates moved up again. The 30 year fixed is averaging 7.40 percent, up from 7.28 last week and 6.30 a year ago. The 15 year is at 6.73.

Here is what that actually does, and it is not what people assume.

It does not stop people from buying. It changes what they can buy. On a 400,000 dollar home, the jump from a year ago is real money, closer to a car insurance payment than a dinner out. I am not going to pretend otherwise. But it does not necessarily cancel somebody’s move. It moves them from the house with the finished garage to the one without it.

Buyers do not disappear when rates go up. They drop down a price bracket. If your house is priced at the very top of your range, those are the buyers you just lost, and they went to the listing below you.

And if you are buying, know which number you are stuck with. You can refinance a rate. You cannot refinance a price.

Call me and we will run your real numbers at today’s rate, not the one you remember from two years ago.

My service area does not end at the edge of the Anchorage bowl. Clients call from Valdez, from the Valley, from communit...
10/09/2026

My service area does not end at the edge of the Anchorage bowl.

Clients call from Valdez, from the Valley, from communities up and down the road system, and I get in the truck and drive. Having lived in a lot of Alaskan towns does that to you. You learn that every community runs on its own market, its own timeline, and its own set of unwritten rules, and you cannot understand any of that from behind a desk in a different city.

You also learn where to stop.

In Valdez, that is . Fuel up, grab something hot off the counter, get back on the road. Places like this tell you more about a town than any listing sheet will, and they've got the best snacks and gift shop in town.

Thinking about buying or selling outside of Anchorage? Give me a call. I will come to you.

The dividend hits direct deposit accounts today, October 1. Paper checks follow on October 22. This year it is 1,200 dol...
10/01/2026

The dividend hits direct deposit accounts today, October 1. Paper checks follow on October 22.

This year it is 1,200 dollars per person: a 1,000 dollar Permanent Fund dividend plus a one time 200 dollar energy relief payment. For a family of four, that is 4,800 dollars arriving in a single month.

Most of it will be gone by Christmas. That is fine, and nobody needs a lecture about it. But if buying a home is anywhere on your horizon in the next two years, there are a handful of things this money can do that are hard to do any other month.

Swipe through for five of them.

Not sure which one applies to your situation? Give us a call and we will look at your actual numbers instead of guessing.

For any of you Alaska newbies out there (cheechakos, as Alaskans say), here's something you need to know! Studs go legal...
09/28/2026

For any of you Alaska newbies out there (cheechakos, as Alaskans say), here's something you need to know! Studs go legal inside the Municipality of Anchorage on October 1.

State law allows them earlier north of 60 degrees latitude, but the Municipality waits until the first. Book the shop now. Appointments disappear the week the first real snow hits the forecast.

And if you are new here and house hunting, pay attention this winter. It will teach you what Alaskans actually look for in a home. Why an attached garage is not a luxury. Why a north facing driveway on a hill turns into a sled run. Why you ask who plows the road before you ask about the countertops.

I would rather you hear that from me before you buy than learn it in January. Alaska is generous with people who prepare a week early. It is not gentle with people who prepare a week late.

A high asking price is not a negotiating position. It is a filter that removes your own buyers.Now here is the part that...
09/23/2026

A high asking price is not a negotiating position. It is a filter that removes your own buyers.

Now here is the part that catches people. Alaska is a non-disclosure state. Sale prices are not public record here, which means that estimate you pulled up online is built on asking prices and guesswork, not on what anything actually sold for. You cannot look up the real number. Neither can your neighbor who told you what your house is worth.

I can see it. If your listing has gone stale, call me and we will sit down with the actual closed numbers. Sometimes the fix is new photos. More often it is the price.

Someone asked me last week what makes a house feel like home. I did not have a good answer at the time. I have been thin...
09/15/2026

Someone asked me last week what makes a house feel like home.

I did not have a good answer at the time. I have been thinking about it since.

I do not think it is the house. I have moved more than ten times in my life and some of those houses never felt like much of anything. The ones that did had something else going on. People who knew my name. A routine I actually looked forward to. A place I kept coming back to.

That is the thing I cannot sell anyone. I can find you the right house. The rest of it you build yourself, over years, usually without noticing it is happening.

But I can tell you which neighborhoods make it easier. That part I know well.

Everyone keeps telling me the market feels slow right now. Here is what it actually looks like.ANCHORAGE276 active, 223 ...
09/10/2026

Everyone keeps telling me the market feels slow right now. Here is what it actually looks like.

ANCHORAGE
276 active, 223 pending, 14 new

EAGLE RIVER AND CHUGIAK
76 active, 81 pending, 2 new

WASILLA, PALMER AND SURROUNDING
577 active, 301 pending, 3 new

605 homes are under contract across Southcentral. In Eagle River, more pending than active. What is actually thin is new inventory, nineteen listings between all three areas, and that is a seller shortage, not a buyer one.

Slow is not the same as bad. There are just fewer people in the room, and that is not a problem if you are one of them.

Want to know what this means for your house or your budget? Let's talk.

If you are buying a home in Alaska, the heating system is not a detail. It is one of the biggest cost decisions attached...
09/08/2026

If you are buying a home in Alaska, the heating system is not a detail. It is one of the biggest cost decisions attached to the house.

Oil, natural gas, Monitor, Toyo. They all heat a home. They do not all cost the same to run, repair, or replace, and they do not all make sense in the same location.

Swipe through for a plain English breakdown of what you are actually looking at.

And if you are under contract right now, ask your inspector to look closely at the heat source. It is worth the extra attention.

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