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Press, Recognition & Published Work

Featured in the Daily Herald. First Place Best Realtor in the Best of Snohomish County back-to-back in 2023 and 2024. Best of Zillow Premier Agent. Published author. 14 years in real estate, building a reputation one client at a time.

What this page is. A working press kit for journalists, producers, and event hosts. Every claim links to a verifiable source. Kim Pelham is a Washington-licensed real estate broker (14 years) with The Pelham Group NW, brokered by Katrina Eileen Real Estate. She holds a 102.3% average sale-to-list ratio across 176 closings, was First Place Best Realtor in the Daily Herald's Best of Snohomish County in 2023 and 2024 (back to back), and is the author of Six-Word Lessons on Selling Your Home in Seattle (Pacelli Publishing, 2017).

Official bio, copy as written

Kim Pelham says, “I do residential real estate differently.” Her husband is a general contractor, and together they combine their businesses to prepare homes for sale with repairs, remodeling, moving and staging. Payment can be deferred until closing if needed. Her transformations help sellers maximize their return, with a 102.3% sale-to-list ratio. She works with a maximum of two buyers at a time so she can really focus on their search. Based in Everett and serving Snohomish County, she is brokered by Katrina Eileen Real Estate, voted Best of Snohomish County two years in a row, earned Best of Zillow, and her book, Six-Word Lessons on Selling Your Home in Seattle, is on Amazon. She hosts a two-time Emmy-nominated show on American Dream TV.

As featured inThe Daily HeraldHeraldNetBest of Snohomish CountyZillow Premier AgentPacelli Publishing
Featured Coverage

In the press, on the page, on the shelf.

The Daily Herald
March 14, 2025
Helping people find not just houses, but homes, places where memories are made, dreams take shape, and futures are built, is my passion.
Kim Pelham

The real estate pros you need to know: Top 3 realtors in Snohomish County

Kim is named one of the top three real estate professionals in Snohomish County. The piece highlights her interior-design background, the way she combines positioning, renovation, and staging to maximize sale proceeds, and her First Place finish in the 2024 Best Of Snohomish County contest.

Read on Daily Herald

For interviews, speaking requests, or story ideas, see the press kit section below.

On video

Think You Can't Afford to Sell Your Home? Watch This First

Kim walks through the most common worry she hears from Snohomish County sellers, that they cannot afford the prep work it takes to list well, and the concierge plan that handles every update, with payment deferred to closing when a seller needs that.

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Published Author
Six-Word Lessons on Selling Your Home in Seattle by Kim Pelham, book cover

Six-Word Lessons on Selling Your Home in Seattle

100 Lessons to Maximize the Results of Your Sale

Kim's practical seller's guide, distilled into a hundred six-word lessons. Short enough to read in a single evening. Useful enough to keep on the kitchen counter through your sale. Part of the long-running Six-Word Lessons series.

Published: December 2017Publisher: Pacelli PublishingISBN: 9781933750712
Earned, not bought

Awards and Recognition

Reader-voted, peer-recognized, and statistically verifiable. Every claim on this page is sourced and citable.

Best of Snohomish County 2024

Best Realtor, Best of Snohomish County

2023 & 2024

Daily Herald readers' choice. First Place back to back, 2023 and 2024.

Best of Zillow

Best of Zillow Premier Agent

Top tier of Zillow Premier Agents for client satisfaction and responsiveness.

102.3%

Sale-to-List Ratio

Average across closed listings vs 100.2% NWMLS county average.

176

Closed Transactions

Across Snohomish and King County over a 14-year career.

55+

Senior Move Specialist

Years of helping seniors and families downsize, sell a parent's home, and navigate estate transitions.

40+

5-Star Verified Reviews

Across Google and Zillow, from sellers and buyers across the county.

For producers, editors and event hosts

Speaking topics

Four subject areas Kim is comfortable speaking on with little prep, with broker-on-the-ground specifics and named-entity examples.

topic 01

Pre-Sale Renovation Strategy

The updates that actually pay back at closing, the money-pits to skip, and how a focused 3-week prep can move a sale price by 5 to 10 percent in the Snohomish County market.

topic 02

The Psychology of Home Staging

Why buyers decide in 90 seconds, what staging actually changes in the buyer brain, and the staging mistakes that quietly cost sellers tens of thousands at the closing table.

topic 03

Senior Real Estate Transitions

Walking families through downsizing, aging-in-place decisions, and estate sales. A senior-move framework built from years of guiding these transitions, one that respects both grief and good outcomes.

topic 04

Reading the Snohomish County Market

A broker-on-the-ground read on NWMLS data: inventory, days on market, sale-to-list, and what it means for sellers and buyers in Mill Creek, Bothell, Everett, Lake Stevens, and Mukilteo.

Common Press & Media Questions

Yes. Kim was profiled in The Daily Herald on March 14, 2025, in "The real estate pros you need to know: Top 3 realtors in Snohomish County," which highlighted her interior-design background and her back-to-back First Place finishes in the Daily Herald's Best of Snohomish County contest in 2023 and 2024. She is also a Best of Zillow Premier Agent.

Find Kim

Where Kim shows up online.

Snohomish County market reads, new listings, behind the scenes of staging days, and short pieces with Kim and Brien. Pick your channel.

Press Kit & Media Contact

Featuring Kim or The Pelham Group?

The press kit includes hi-res headshots, the full bio, story angles, named sources, and verified statistics. Reach out and we will send everything you need within 24 hours.