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The Cary Real Estate Market in January showed signs of improvement from a stabilization standpoint. Inventory is down slightly while pendings and closings are up from this time last year. All stats are for single family homes only in Cary North Carolina. Total # Cary Homes For Sale as of Janu...
02/04/2010
What is the American Tobacco Trail? It's 22 miles of trails running from Cary to Durham - the trails are built over an old abandoned rail road track that dates back to the early 1900's. The American Tobacco Trail's almost perfectly flat - which makes sense when you think of it being where a rail...
01/28/2010
Cary North Carolina Home Sellers experienced a fairly stable average number of days on the market for 2009 – for the year the average was 121 days on market – or approximatley 4 months. While this is a bit longer than years past it’s still a very robust market – especially compared to other par...
01/19/2010
A tremendous amount of attention is focused on Haiti right now as they recover from the massive earthquake. People are scrambling trying to find a way they can help - well - here's a way! There is a local organization right here in Cary with infrastructure already in place in Haiti - they have a ...
01/13/2010
At CaryRealEstate.com we’re always keeping our eye out on how to improve our level of service with home buyers and sellers. Most of us enjoy the latest gadget but rarely does something have as much positive impact as docusign. It’s a web based service that allows the creator of a document to s...
01/07/2010
Ask Cary Real Estate: What’s the difference between a Builders Deposit and Earnest Money? How do they effect the Home Buyer? Cary home buyers offer earnest money on a re-sale home and a builders deposit on most new construction. Here’s a quick overview of the similarities and differences between ...
01/06/2010
CQ Press, who publishes the annual City Crime Rankings just released their annual report - the Town of Cary received the following distinguished rankings: Safest Municipality in North Carolina for the 11th straight year. Safest Municipality in the South East. 5th Safest in the Nation for populati...
12/10/2009
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David Williams and local real estate attorney Rick Twomey will be offering a class for Cary area real estate agents on the changes to RESPA (Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act) that go into effect January 1, 2010. Specifically this class will be covering the new standardized Good Faith Estimat...
12/10/2009
It may become more difficult for a home buyer to obtain FHA financing. In Washington there's pending legislation to increase the requirements for buyers using FHA as the source of their home financing. These new regulations would make it more difficult for buyers to qualify. It's called the “...
12/10/2009
What is a Short Sale? A Short Sale occurs when a home seller is allowed by their lender to sell the home for less than what's owed on the mortgage. If you are a home seller you may be thinking COOL - I like that idea - not having to payback as much as I owe - well of course it's not that simple....
12/10/2009