Marnie Matarese / DWELL REAL ESTATE

  Flood Insurance News for  Sarasota  Buyers  and  Home Owners   No matter how much we manage to work our way  back to an improving real estate market  one thing and then another continues to stand in the path of recovery.   Tom Luzier, one of our favorite closing attorneys, has this to say about...

  Whole Foods in Sarasota The overwhelming success of Whole Foods in Sarasota is a mystery to me.  From the day it opened I have marveled at how much money people are willing to spend for items readily and cheaply available elsewhere. The parking garage is an obstacle course with the spaces far ...

Home Prices in Sarasota, Florida for Summer 2013 Real estate market data for Sarasota, Florida provided by Marnie Matarese    J Wood Realty Company    I receive a montly update from a Credit Suisse survey of realtors that shows home sales remaining high in July, 2013 but prices increasing....    ...

Every year I drive down the entire 10 miles of Gulf of Mexico Drive on Longboat Key on September 11.  There are  2,977 American Flags  planted on the side of the road, one for each of the souls who lost their lives on this day.  The Public Works Department puts them out the day before and will re...

  Back To Basics The single most successful technique I used this year is back to basics.  Although I have a healthy respect for the internet, social media and all the exposure that goes with it, I started off the year with a commitment to personally contact either by phone or by visiting all of ...

Dear Seller, I am sending you this note because I have spent the last three days trying to get an appointment to show your home to an extremely viable buyer.   You have placed restrictions on showings that are extremely difficult to adhere to.  First, you want to be there for all showings and yo...

When one of our agents assisted a buyer in finding a home in an area that we do not do alot of business in, we had no idea who to use as a home inspector.  The sellers required in the contract that the home inspection be done in five days because they did not want the home off the market any long...

    SHORT SALE NEGOTIATIONS MADE EVEN MORE DIFFICULT....    Did you know that many lenders and servicers are often requiring that homeowners list their property with an online auction company after a short sale contract has been submitted?  So, if your buyer has put the condition into his offer ...

Home Prices in Sarasota, Florida for August 2013Real estate market data for Sarasota, Florida  provided by Marnie Matarese  of DWELL Real Estate  This data has been provided by Sarasota Realtors Magazine, August 2013Sales remain high in June, 2013 The inventory of available homes in the Sarasota ...

I used to warn the chasers of short sales that the major problem was the length that it would take to close on one and the condition that the home might be in after anywhere from 3 months to over a year had passed.  Now there is yet another real concern for any buyer in the Sarasota area who want...