Florida real estate law will see modifications effective July 1, 2010, as many of the 274 new laws passed during the 2010 legislative session take effect at the start of the new fiscal year. Of these many new laws, two (2) will have an impact on how the Tallahassee real estate market is regulated
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06/30/2010
It has been quite some time since we have reported on Tallahassee Condo and Townhouses, so today will serve as an update on this ever-growing segment of the Tallahassee real estate market. If you are in the market to buy a Tallahassee Condo, you need to understand the diversity of what you will f
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06/29/2010
As I was assembling the Tallahassee Real Estate Newsletter this morning, I found an interesting comparison between lot values in Tallahassee and mobile home values. Over the past 20 years, these two market components have run a very similar course, but all of that changed during the real estate b
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06/28/2010
Do you want to know the truth about how to sell a home in today’s real estate market? If you try and find information on what REALTORS® are doing, it seems you get information overload. With roughly 60% of the homes on the market failing to sell over the past year, it is obvious that most home se
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06/25/2010
We are fortunate that the BP oil spill has not yet hit Tallahassee (not the economic effects). Last week I wrote a quick article from Cape San Blas, Florida while my family and I spent two days there. I noted that I had never seen the beach look better and there was absolutely no oil on the bea
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06/25/2010
Understanding how to triumph in home sales negotiation should be simple to understand, but I find that is not always so. If I were to ask 100 home buyers “how much are you willing to pay for the home,” when they found the right home to buy, most would give me an answer that would work against th
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06/24/2010
The internet has changed so much in the way that businesses interact with their customers. Real estate customers have been empowered with so much information and great local resources that they have the ability to make a truly informed decision prior to buying or selling a home. Before we had the
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06/23/2010
There really is a huge difference between the two different types of plans for marketing a home for sale on the internet. It has taken me three years to complete the evolution from where I was based in traditional realty methodologies to being a much more active marketer on the internet. You see,
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06/22/2010
Now that June is more than half way over, real estate analysts from around the United States look forward to reading the annual study assembled by the Joint Center For Housing Studies of Harvard University. Each year Harvard publishes “The State of the Nation’s Housing” and this year looks very
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06/21/2010
Pending home sales measurements is our favorite way to predict future home sales so we look at the list of homes that are under contract and waiting for closing. These are what we refer to as “Pending Home Sales” and we can track them on a daily basis in the Tallahassee MLS. The real estate graph
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06/19/2010