Congress and the August Recess

Great info providing by REALTOR.org. Over the next three weeks, Congress will be moving quickly to hold hearings, debate issues and pass key pieces of legislation before they break for their annual recess in August.  NAR will be asking Congress to act on vitally important real estate issues before leaving Washington. During the August recess…

The numbers….

The good sign is the increase of sales and the negative is other June data. The number of new listings is up and the number of contingent contracts for single homes, condo/townhouses, and number of pending are all down. It is likely we hit our seasonal peak this year in June as we did last…

6 Reasons to Reduce Your Home Price

Article From BuyAndSell.HouseLogic.com By: G. M. Filisko Published: March 19, 2010 While you’d like to get the best price for your home, consider our six reasons to reduce your home price. Home not selling? That could happen for a number of reasons you can’t control, like a unique home layout or having one of the…

What is going on in today’s market?

The Real Estate industry has taken some major pitfalls over the past 24 months. In some price ranges like the higher prices, $400,000 and up there seems to be an abundance of homes on the market. Some of the higher prices are looking at a 2-5 year supply of inventory before we turn back to…

Does Your Real Estate Investment Have you strapped?

Feeling the daily anxiety of financial loss and value can bring major stressors into your life. With today’s current economy many Real Estate investments that were made in the past are now upside down. I am not trying to give you the doom and gloom of our economy and what has happened over the past…

Where do I start?

Hiring the services of a professional REALTOR® is the first place to begin. Have your agent do a CMA or comparative market analysis of what the current value is. This then gives you an idea of what direction to go in. Are you going to have to do A SHORT SALE OR WHEN YOU DO…

One Step Closer To Selling Your Home, Out With the Old and In With the New:

Over and over we keep collecting items until we have all this unwanted clutter. First thing you should do is begin discarding all the stuff that you have not used in the past year or two. Make a couple of trips to your favorite charity where they can put the items to use. Try refurbishing…

Looking for the right Real Estate agent:

Choosing the right agent to help you buy a home is not as difficult as it may seem. Ask the people around you who they have used in the past. Another aspect to look at is what type of local exposure that agent has locally as well the presence of the internet. The World Wide…

Is your current listing not getting the activity that you want?

One of the first things you should do is make sure you have it priced competitively. Just because others in that area sold for more 2 years ago does not mean your value is still at that level. Have your agent do a CMA or even order an appraisal to get the current value. Some…

Follow Up To Short Sale Series:

In a follow up to the short sale series of articles that ran for the month of April’ I wanted to point out a major factor many are not aware of:. Make sure that if you are doing a short sale on your residence that the acceptance letter from the lender does state a release…