Madison Real Estate News and Views

Kiplinger has named Madison #7 of the top 10 places to live in the U.S. based on unemployment and job growth figures. Many of us have known this all along.  In spite of winter, Madison is a great place to live, work and play.  You can find the entire profile for Madison by clicking this link. So ...

One of the really cool things about living in the central city is the vibrant community groups that seem to thrive here. One of them is the Capitol Neighborhood, Inc.   If you want to get plugged in to what's happening both on a cultural and quality of living standpoint in central Madison, joinin...

Just this past week my team closed on a listing we took in late April. What's extraordinary in that?  At first blush absolutely nothing.  In fact getting a buyer and seller to closing is part of what we get paid to do in this business.  At the closing table both Buyer and Seller were very amicabl...

Note from Darren-"This might be seen as self promoting propaganda and admittedly it is.  Along with that I thought it important to share that in spite of the challenging economy, especially in real estate, some companies are not only surviving but thriving. This happens in every industry when mar...

Today I discovered a cool resource on LinkedIn where you can post reviews and thoughts on books. Many of you know I read a number of books each month.  Some good, some great and some not so good (in my opinion).  If you want to see my recommendation list, click this link. Go ahead and start creat...

There's a pretty intricate process we go through when we work through a short sale to a successful closing. Not only do we have to get agreement from any underlying mortgage holders but quite often there may be judgements and liens against the property that have to be released in order to close o...