Short sale commentary

With short sale inventory rising; buyers walking from short sale offers frustrated; Realtors frustrated; are more foreclosures coming?

Strategies for Selling Your Home

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Financial Incentives and Uniform Process for Short Sales

May 14, 2009 – The Obama Administration acting upon the call from the National Association of Realtors, announced Financial Incentives and Uniform Process for Short Sales under its new Foreclosure Alternatives Program (FAP). The alternatives are meant for borrowers who do not qualify to have their loans modified on a permanent basis under the Making [...]

Preparing Your Home for Sale

There are lots of articles and TV shows discussing the merits of staging your home to help sell your home more quickly. The short story is that you need to make your home look like a model home or at least as close as you can. The rest of the story is that while staging [...]

Pricing Your Home – 9 Factors

December 2008 Sales Up!

As December 2008 residential real estate resales results were reported, a surprise was in store as sales were up. Reports indicate that buyers are taking advantage of lower prices and 45% of the sales were of foreclosures and short sales. A short sale occurs when the seller agrees to take less for the property than what [...]

Welcome 2009, Goodbye 2008

As we welcome a new year, we say goodbye to the old one happily. The real estate industry is happy to turn this page and we remain optimistic for a rebound in the industry. Rates are very low in the 5’s and prices are great, so it is a great time to buy a home.
Economic [...]

Fannie and Freddie Fear Mongering

In back to back statements one day after the other, the CFO of Freddie Mac and the CEO of Fannie Mae made statements regarding the real estate market that should have the masses howling in my humble opinion.
The two companies were established with a mission to broaden American home ownership by making loans more affordable. The companies, [...]

June 2008

The real estate market activity continues to be slow, however there is a market. Comparisons to the fevered pitch during the peak of the market are not realistic and both buyers and sellers should get used to the idea of a more measured pace. This is a return to a more normal market.
The market will rebound [...]

Strategies for Selling Your Home

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