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Your clients are planning to sell their home. But will they be selling at wholesale or retail price? Yes, you heard right. There is such a thing as wholesale and retail in real estate. But how can they know the difference? Of course, there's no structured wholesale and retail price list for house...
04/06/2007
Hot off the "Actual Statistics" press, it is now time for my MARCH update of how the real estate market is faring in my area of the country - the Massachusetts North Shore, north of Boston.In January, I wrote a blog entitled "Knowing Exactly When the Market will Change" that received many comment...
04/01/2007
You've probably heard someone say "They're not making any more land!"  What they were really saying is that there's only a limited supply of land available, so the price goes up as the supply goes down. And of course, that IS the way prices are set on land and housing. As demand for housing in a ...
03/30/2007
 When a homeowner is ready to sell, it's very easy to be snared in the overpricing trap. After all, we all want top price for our home, don't we? And we all know that prices have risen dramatically in recent years. Given that, it's logical that the asking price they set could be higher than "fair...
03/23/2007
When you're ready to buy a home, what's the first step you'll need to take?  Get on the Internet? Start looking at homes? No, there's a better suggestion. You probably already have a good idea of what type home you want to buy. You've thought about how many bedrooms and bathrooms will be needed, ...
03/16/2007
When prosective buyers are ready to buy a home, how many real estate agents do they feel they need to find the perfect place – one, three, five? A recent survey reported that almost 80 percent of buyers use only one or two agents before they find a home. But you and I know that one is all they re...
03/09/2007
In January, I wrote a blog entitled "Knowing Exactly When the Market will Change" that received many comments, replies and supportive feedback. In that blog, I stated that as soon as we have 3 consecutive months when more inventory is going off (under contract) than is coming on (new listings) we...
03/06/2007
SALE PENDING  PRICE: $1,495,000Rooms: 10Bedrooms: 4Baths: 3 FullGarage: 3-carFirepalces: 6Age: 1999Living Area: 5,500+/- s.f. Land Area: 5.32 Acres Custom designed shingle-style contemporary home in private 5+ acre setting with incredible marsh views.  This home has it all!  Features include gran...
03/04/2007
Who hasn't heard that old saying: "You only get one chance to make a great first impression." Sure, it's a cliché, but that's because there's a lot of truth in it. As if to prove the point, not long ago The Codgers held a Carnival here on Active Rain to find homes with great (or not so great) cur...
03/02/2007
Identity theft... It has finally happened to me.  But it's not the kind you usually hear about.  No credit cards or bank savings books involved.  No stolen social security card or numbers.  No, this is a different kind of identity theft.  It's theft of material right off my website, from a compet...
02/26/2007
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