Nashville Homes Sales for March 2011 ended with 1673 closing at a median price for single-family homes of $165,000 in March 2011 compared to $159,250 last March, an increase of 3.5 percent. Nashville condo prices for March 2011 were a median price of $143,000 compared to $137,450 in March 2010. Clearly the first time home buyers have been the ones most affected by the new mortgage rules requiring larger down payments. With low interest rates and still a good supply of homes, in some cases it's cheaper to buy a home than rent one, especially over the long term. Most experts agree that inflation will cause rent payments to rise dramatically in the next few years. The best protection for your budget is to own your own home. 1673 Nashville homes closed for the month of March the median pric... 04/09/2011

Lynn Chapman, Showhomes' Director of Field Operations, suggested a great new way for Showhomes home stagers to say thanks to the wonderful Realtors and Brokers who drive our business: Cookie Bouquets! She had the local Cookies by Design franchise in Nashville design this great gift basket for us:   (I'm guilty of eating the middle cookie before it got very far into the office.....) And made this one for us to deliver to a real estate office: Lynn and Patti Poole, the Staging Consultant for the Nashville Showhomes office, dropped the bouquet off at Shirley Zeitin Realtors in Green Hills. The response was great! Check out the amazing detail work on our logo cookie (done by hand): What do you think?   Thomas Scott www.showhomes.com www.cookiesbydesign.com 11/18/2008

Be Optimistic but Realistic ~ You can dream all day long that your home is worth a certain amount. Happy dreams make for fabulous mental visions of grandeur. It’s good to be optimistic. But in today’s housing market, visions of grandeur can be a huge drawback and cost you lots of money.Most Important ~ Hire a real estate professional. You don’t need to know everything about buying and selling real estate if your hire a professional. Real estate agents have all the necessary tools at their disposal and can give you up-to-date information regarding recent sales and statistics, your competition, and information about the housing market in general. A real estate agent will market your property to other real estate agents as well as to the public on the MLS and other internet sites. A real e... 02/16/2008