Leslie Ebersole | T3 Fellows

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Industry Observer - Swanepoel T3 Group
I write about the real estate business and the people in it.
RECENT BLOG POSTS
As the housing market in St. Charles continues it’s steady improvement, more buyers are out looking for their next home. No buyer wants to overpay so I do a pretty extensive analysis to determine a fair price for the house. See an example of one of my spreadsheets below. I use the MLS to find a ...
07/12/2012
604 Alberosky Way Tanglewood Hills, Batavia IL - SOLD This beautiful home at 604 Albersosky Way in Tanglewood Hills closed this week for $650,000. The home was listed for $675,000 and closed at 96.3% of the list price with a market time of 68 days. The home features 5 true bedroom and four full b...
07/04/2012
  This beautiful home at 3N121 Sylvan Drive closed last week for $450,000.  The 1st floor master has beautiful windows that look out over private woods and gardens. The home offered lots of space for entertaining including a  sunroom, a screened porch and a finished basement. The home is sited on...
07/04/2012
Should you hire the real estate agent who returns your call in 60 seconds or less? Should you entrust the biggest financial transaction of your life to the broker who instantly emails you back “Hi, this is Bill, how can I help you?”. Is speed of response the best measure for future performance? D...
06/18/2012
The Pride of the Fox Riverfest kicked off today in St. Charles, IL. This is one of the best events of the year in the Fox Valley with so much to do: a carnival, 3 full days of live music, and the popular dragon boat races on Saturday and Sunday. There's also an art show and craft fair over in Pot...
06/08/2012
In St. Charles IL there have been 184 closed sales as of May 31, 2012 at an average closed price of $326,779 . This is almost exactly the same as the 183 closed sales in the same period in 2011, but the average closed price has decreased from $366,613 in 2011. The number of low priced REOs (bank ...
06/05/2012
If you’re thinking of building a home in St. Charles, IL, there are several developments that have lots available and active new construction projects underway. If you’re dreaming of picking every floor tile and bathroom fixture to create a one-of-a-kind home, there are a number of locations with...
06/05/2012
A few years ago the real estate market in St. Charles tanked. Badly. In May of 2008 I had about $25 million in listings and nothing under contract. I took it personally, because if you take your previous success personally, shouldn't you take your pending failure just as personally? I started loo...
05/21/2012
Short Sales and Foreclosures: Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles May 15, 2012 Just about every client I work wants to know how short sales and foreclosures will affect them. If you’re a home buyer, you have heard that these can be a great deal but hard to buy. If you’re a seller, you need to understand...
05/19/2012
It's happened to all of us: we write a post that creates strong reactions and things go pear-shaped. Sometimes we wrote in perfect innocence, sometimes in righteous indignation, sometimes with an intent to stir the pot, but suddenly our own personal little blog goes pear-shaped. Sometimes the mos...
04/21/2012
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