916 Harvard Ave E

Seattle, Washington, 98102

Tax DeedpendingSells Oct 10, 2026 · today

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Beds: 4
Baths: 2
SqFt: 2,930
Lot Size: 5,000
Year Built: 1941
APN: 983120-0460

Property Type: Sfr
Distressed: No
Vacant: No
Owner Type: Individual
Length of Ownership: 6 Years 2 Months
Purchase Method: Cash Purchase
County: King

Value

Estimated Value: $1,580,000
County Market Value: $1,406,000; 2025
Assessed Value: $1,406,000; 2025

Mortgage & Debt

Open Mortgages: 0
Estimated Balance: $0
Lien Flags: None recorded; RealEstateAPI flags · not a lien search
Tax Delinquent Since: 2021

Last Sale

Document Type: Intrafamily Transfer

Opportunity

Opening Bid: $79,641
Bid / Value: 5%; of $1,580,000
Property Tax 2025: $14,659; annual bill · not the amount owed
Equity (est.): $1,580,000; 100%
Monthly Rent: $4,040; Suggested rent
Gross Yield: 3.07%

Opening bid

$79,641

Assessed value

$1,406,000

Land $1,166,000Improvement $240,000

Market / AVM

$1,580,000

Property tax 2025

$14,659

Annual bill — the sale list gives no amount owed

Property facts enriched via realestateapi · 9/29/2026

Ownership Information

Owner 1 Name: Kathryn J Hildebrand
Owner Type: Individual
Corporate Owned: No

Property Characteristics

Bedrooms: 4
Total Bathrooms: 2
Partial Bathrooms: 3
Heating Type

Deal analysis

Date	Status	Price	Days on Market	Agent	Office
09/19/2026	Active	$1,630,000	2	Tim Fischer	Windermere West Metro

Sale Date	Recorded	Amount	Document	Doc #	Arm's Length	Method	Buyer	Seller
05/01/2020	07/09/2020		Intrafamily Transfer	20200709000025	No	Cash Purchase	Kathryn J Hildebrand	Kurt R Hildebrand
05/29/2008	05/30/2008	$798,500	Warranty Deed	20080530001142	Yes	Cash Purchase	Kurt R Hildebrand	Dean W Decrease
08/13/2001	08/20/2001		Intrafamily Transfer	20010820001533	No	Cash Purchase	Dean W Decrease	Huong Vudecrease
07/13/2001	08/20/2001	$692,500	Warranty Deed	20010820001534	Yes	Financed	Dean W Decrease	Bryan Thomas Ogden, Judith Grace Ogden
06/25/1996	06/27/1996	$405,000	Warranty Deed	9606271475	Yes	Financed	Bryan Thomas Ogden, Judith Grace Ogden	Kenton L Cobb, Marion W Jervay
	02/01/1994	$268,000	Warranty Deed	E1356416	Yes	Financed	Kenton L Cobb, Marion W Jervay	Perman G Waddell
	01/12/1994		Quit Claim Deed	E1353232	No	Cash Purchase	Thelma K Olson	Perman G Waddell

Your maximum bid

$961,730

Walk away above this. Projected profit at the ceiling: $474,000 (30% of ARV).

Opening bid $79,641

Room to bid $882,089

Confidence: medium — ARV from a provider market estimate, not comps.

History-guided suggestion

$394,007

Under max by $567,723

≤ oracle maxBid

Co-pilot target using recorded auction history. Never above your maximum bid.

History sample

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No historical bucket for WA|Tax Deed; suggestion uses oracle only.

Your assumptions

After-repair value (ARV)

Override the derived estimate with real comps

Rehab budget

You cannot inspect before bidding — budget for the worst plausible condition

Known surviving liens

Municipal code enforcement, special assessments, federal tax liens

Target margin — 30%

Required profit as a share of ARV. 30% is a common floor for tax-sale flips.

How that number is built

Provider market estimate of $1,580,000. This is an as-is valuation, not an after-repair one — enter your own comparable-sales figure if the property needs work.

After-repair value: $1,580,000
Selling costs on exitassumed 8.0% of ARV — agent commission plus seller-side closing.: −$126,400
Rehabassumed No rehab budget entered — assumed $0. Tax-sale parcels are sold unseen and un-inspected; this is rarely correct.: −$0
Quiet title (required)assumed Midpoint of the typical WA range ($1,800–$5,000, ~5 months).: −$3,400
Deed recording and transferassumed Typical WA recording and deed issuance cost.: −$250
Holding costs (6 months)assumed Taxes, insurance, and securing the property at ~$2,370/month.: −$14,220
Surviving liensassumed Assumed $0 — not verified. Municipal code-enforcement liens, special assessments, and federal tax liens can survive the sale.: −$0
Target profit (30% of ARV): −$474,000
Maximum bid: $961,730

Before you bid

Rehab is assumed to be $0. You cannot inspect these properties before bidding — budget for the worst plausible condition.
Surviving liens assumed $0. A WASHINGTON TAX DEED CAN BE UNWOUND FOR THREE YEARS AND THE RECORD WILL NOT WARN YOU. RCW 84.64.070: "If the real property of any minor, or any person adjudicated to be legally incompetent, be sold for nonpayment of taxes, the same may be redeemed at any time within three years after the date of sale." Nothing in a title search reveals that a former owner was a minor or had been adjudicated incompetent, so this is a latent claim on every Washington parcel for three years. It is the reason quietTitle is marked required in a state whose deed is otherwise clean.
This is the most trustworthy derived ARV in the file — full market value, revalued every year — but the parcel is only physically inspected once every six years, so an annual revaluation is a model applied to a property nobody has looked at recently. On a tax-foreclosure parcel, where deterioration is the norm and is exactly what a model of comparable sales will miss, the assessment is likely to describe a building in better condition than the one being sold. Farm, agricultural, timber and open space land also has its own valuation basis outside RCW 84.40.030 and will sit far below market.

916 Harvard Ave E

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916 Harvard Ave E

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