About Miki Maruyama — Japanese-speaking REALTOR® in Greater Seattle
About
Miki Maruyama (丸山 美樹)
I want to be someone who walks beside you as a new life begins.
A graduate of Doshisha University's Faculty of Law, and a mother of two. After graduating, she joined Honda Motor Co. Armed with the understanding of contracts she had built in law school, she threw herself into new-model production and development — confirming that products could be faithfully reproduced from the drawings that served as contracts with suppliers. Through that work, she came to deeply appreciate how vital, and how binding, a contract can be — an experience that would later become a real strength in the strategic, precise, and careful contract work that real estate demands.
She moved to Ohio and made the leap into real estate. Starting out as an assistant to one of the area's top agents, and later — after relocating to Seattle — learning the business from the ground up on a top team closing dozens of transactions a year, she sharpened her skill at reading contracts, at the art of negotiation, and at understanding what truly matters to each client. Today she works on her own as an independent agent.
Guided by the belief that a home is the foundation of a life and the axis around which daily living turns, she walks alongside each client as they begin a life that is truly their own. Having moved from Japan to America herself, she knows firsthand both the joys and the difficulties of living abroad — which is why she cares not only about finding a property, but about choosing a home with an eye to the life that will unfold there. Drawing on her real estate expertise and her skill in negotiation, she helps clients step forward with confidence, bringing them together with a home that makes life richer.
My Belief
"Like a hermit crab — a home that fits every stage of life just right."
Born and raised in Japan, I always thought of buying a home as the single biggest purchase of a lifetime — until I stepped into the world of American real estate. Here, people move from home to home like hermit crabs, for all sorts of reasons: the family grew, they got a dog, they wanted one more place as an investment. It's something made possible precisely because property values rise year after year.
After the children have left home, there's still a leak in the ceiling of a room no one uses. A yard too big to mow, and watering to do every day. By downsizing, you might just free yourself from all that extra work.
Maybe you live in a condominium but have never once used the pool or the tennis court — while the Home Owners Association dues climb higher every year. It might be worth considering a small house or townhome with no HOA at all.
A home you move through with your lifestyle, a home that lives alongside you. I hope that home can be the place where you meet each tomorrow healthy and happy — somewhere you never want to leave, somewhere you can't wait to come back to.
Helping more and more people live happily, in a way that fits their own lifestyle — that is the motto of Seattle Homes.
