How do you figure a value on your home? Is it difficult to determine housing values in the tumultuous real estate market in which we are battling right now? Is there a science or method that works the best? Anybody who knows me has heard me often say “I am long-term bullish on home values.” Of c
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09/30/2010
Credit challenged home buyers could have seen yesterday’s blog titled Home Sellers Expand Their Market With Creative Financing and might have had either a positive or negative reaction to what it was addressing. From a positive perspective, they should realize that there has never been a greate
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09/29/2010
Home sellers who offer creative financing options expand the list of potential buyers for their homes. Generally speaking, most home sellers and real estate agents are not accustomed to using “other than traditional” financing techniques, so I figured today would be a great day to follow-up yeste
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09/28/2010
We have been observing distress home sales and reporting their growth for quite some time here at the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog, so I guess it was only time that we brought them to you with a real estate graph. Roughly 1 in every 3 home sales recorded in the Tallahassee MLS was categorized as
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09/27/2010
Are you interviewing real estate agents for the job of selling your home? If you are like most new home sellers, you invite an agent or two into your home and you have them “pitch” to you the reasons why you should hire them to sell your home. They come right to your home so that you don’t even
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09/24/2010
A small article regarding FAMU President Ammons' six-figure bonus was published today in the Tallahassee Democrat and I think the story behind the story is far more important than one might realize from just seeing the newspaper article. Of course, I am highly un-qualified to have much of an in
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09/23/2010
The August Year To Date Home Sales Report shows that 2010 is shaping up to most likely be the worst year for home sales in Tallahassee since I began tracking real estate market information in 1991. It appears as if the positive start to the year will be replaced with a weak finish, mostly due to
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09/22/2010
It is very understandable why buyer’s remorse lurks behind every door right now in the real estate market, as fear is running rampant in a market filled with high levels of supply and low levels of optimism. What is buyers remorse you might wonder … Buyer’s remorse is the feeling of regret after
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09/21/2010
Ninety weeks after we started reporting real estate news with the Tallahassee Real Estate Newsletter, we are instituting a change in our publication schedule in order to improve upon our timely reporting service. As advocates of the “if it ain’t broken … break it!” school of change, we felt that
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09/20/2010
If you are trying to sell a home and have not succeeded, then you are like much of your competition. It is expected that 70% of the homes on the market today, as well as those that will enter the market over the next year, will fail to sell. It should be obvious to anybody paying attention that h
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09/17/2010