Scott Donnellan's (scottdonnellan) Blog

The number of homes for sale is shrinking. What does this mean for someone looking to sell?  This is great news less competition means a better chance of buyers seeing your home and more potential for getting your home sold. If your house is priced right.  That is always the key.  What does this ...

As I sit here looking at the numbers for the 1st quarter, 2 things are clear to me about the Massapequa Real estate Market. The market has not yet completely recovered and houses do still sell. Wow that sounds like a contradiction, huh? Let me clarify, there are 340 homes for sale in the Massapeq...

Relocating to Massapequa, NY If you are thinking about or looking into relocating to Massapequa, NY, it's always good to have a friend on the other end. I am a Massapequa native, and would be more than happy to show you the best opportunities we offer. Despite the large population of 25,000 resid...

Scott Donnellan Professional Realtor EPRO l CDPE Your Neighbor l Your Realtor Honest, effective, and a hard worker, these key elements and attitudes are the foundation of which I built my way of business and success upon. With great attention to detail and listening to my clients' needs for Real...

Its come to my attention that there are alot of terms being thrown around in Real Estate today that nobody heard of 4 years ago.  Although these things existed at that time they were not as prevalent as they are today and due to this mainstream America was not familiar with these terms.  Today it...

I think this past year the word short sale has become part of societies vocabulary.  I got to thinking though how many people actually know what they are talking about when they say short sale?  So I started taking note of my conversations with various people as I went about my day to day life in...

Home buyer's credit now also includes a trade up credit of up to $6500 in addition to the first time home buyers credit for $8000.  Get off the fence and start making offers.  This is a credit and amounts to free money.  Everyone should be looking to take advantage of this!  This can amount to re...

It looks as if Congress has extended the home buyers credit until April of 2010.  What they did to make it even better for first time buyers was that they said as long as you are in contract by the end of April that you qualify for the credit.  Another Interesting caveat is the fact that they als...

Although the Real Estate picture throughout the country seems to be all gloom and doom, our local Long Island Market, and our Massapequa market in particular are still seeing homes sell for close to asking price.  As buyers are searching for homes everybody seems to be looking for "deals",  the p...

I keep getting calls from buyers who want foreclosures,  and my answer is always the same.  NO YOU DONT!  Don't get me wrong there are some deals to be had in the foreclosure market,  but they are not for everybody.  First off the prices aren't much lower than other homes,  and usually they are i...