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We've all driven by it dozens of times along Route 2, vowing that we'd plunk down $50 for a raffle ticket...and maybe, just maybe get lucky. But a Colorado woman who never did drive by - indeed, who has never even visited the Annapolis area - turned out to be the lucky winner of the 6 bedroom, 4 ...
01/28/2009
So, Your Home WAS Listed, It Just Sat There Gathering Dust, and Then the Holidays Rolled Around So you withdrew it from the market. Too much hassle...not enough action. Now what? First, let's look at the reasons it probably didn't sell. 1. Condition - Your home has issues that turned buyers off -...
01/24/2009
The Story Showcases a $1.2 Million Crownsville Waterfront Home We Found a Buyer For in 18 Days The Annapolis area is fortunate to have a great magazine - What's Up? Annapolis - to keep residents apprised of nearly everything that's going on around here. And we're fortunate to be featured in the D...
12/05/2008
Talk to Annapolis area homebuyers these days and you'll often hear this: I don't want just a deal. I want a steal! Realtors expect this sort of brash talk from seasoned investors, but more and more we're hearing it from young couples, first time homebuyers, grandmothers and other nice people wh...
10/28/2008
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Anne Arundel County Saw 388 Homes Sold Last Month. That's Down 14% From Last September. But The Sky Isn't Really Falling Around Us... I've been talking to a lot of you lately. Our entire team has. Each and every day, The Moss Haedrich Team calls 20, 30, 40 or more of you to see how you're feeling...
10/23/2008
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Buyers Are Still Willing to Pay More, and Faster, for Something They Perceive to be Special. A Story... This past summer we listed a home that was very nice indeed. Price: $1,200,000. It went under contract in 19 days, and sold a few weeks later for a price that the owners found quite acceptable...
10/08/2008
Here's The Street Sign Annapolis Area Homebuyers Are Seeing Most Frequently Nowadays. Here's How to Deal With It I read a blog post today that said Internet searches for the phrase "houses for sale" were at their highest point in 2 years. The author thought this an encouraging sign: investors, he...
10/02/2008
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At Keller Williams, We Are Encouraged to Think About Our Mission and Purpose in Life. It's Called Our Big Why, and Here's Why I Think It Matters Several years back, on my first day in real estate, I sat down with the team leader of the Keller Williams office here in Annapolis. I signed some paper...
05/28/2008
Do the Numbers Reveal an Upturn in the Annapolis Real Estate Market? Plus...Here's What the NAR (National Assn of Realtors) is Forecasting for the Second Half of 2008 Around the 10th of every month, the local MLS - ours is known as the Metropolitan Regional Information System - publishes real est...
05/22/2008
When It Rains in Annapolis, It Pours. And When It Pours, The Moss Haedrich Team of Keller Williams Puts on our Slickers The rains came to Annapolis this week, biblical rains. Like oil and water, any experienced Realtor will tell you that biblical rains and pending settlements don't mix well. The...
05/15/2008