Years ago it made perfect sense to brand yourself and to connect with your local community. Today it takes a more complicated approach that not only includes branding yourself for the local community but being highly visible to those outside your communities. Before the days of internet a realtor needed to be popular within the [...]
Marketing your real estate brand has evolved over the last few years and has a bit more complicated. Years ago most business was done in the local market and with local people. Most people knew one another and it wasn’t difficult to know where to go to get something done. Today, people do business all [...]
Many people are advising folks that this is the best time to buy a home or to dive into real estate, but is it really the “best” time. For sure the mortgage rates are low right now and there are a lot of homes on the market for sale. Many of these homes are foreclosures [...]
Real Estate rates are low and that means good news for the potential home buyer. It’s times like these when you need to take advantage of the rates and lock in for the long haul. Who knows what these rates will be like next year, so if you’re in the market to buy, now may [...]
It’s no question that the recovery of our economy is taking it’s time. Every sector seems to be slow to jump back up and act like normal. Everyone is so cautious about spending and that transcends over into real estate. Real estate is a big purchase and people are afraid to purchase big ticket items [...]
With the current real estate market the way that it is, it is imperative that one gain a competitive advantage. One of the ways to gain that upper hand on the market is to have your home staged and ready to show to prospective buyers. Staging involves a number of things, but simply is the [...]
What is it that makes home prices go up or down? We all know about the supply and demand concept and most of the time that is the pinnacle factor in the driving of our pricing markets and models, but what if there were other factors that were just as important and had equal impact. [...]
There are reports that the California housing market is leading the recovery for the entire nation concerning the housing market. Tax credits, incentives, supply and demand are all factors that may be contributing to the housing market in the Sunshine State. Reports are surfacing of 107% purchases, meaning that homes are being sold for more [...]
With unemployment rates on the decline in most states, the hopes of the battered real estate gaining a recovery is becoming more of a reality. There have been many incentives over the last year with the government offering the first time home buyers tax credit as being the biggest. We saw home builders offering purchase [...]
Pending homes sales has risen over the last few months up about 6% since April and over 22% since April of 2009. This upward swing is good news for a failing real estate market and good news for real estate in Augusta Georgia. The last couple of years have been horrible for home owners trying [...]
A new law in California enables borrowers to have a tax break whose mortgage debt was forgiven through modification of their loan, a short sale or even due to foreclosure. The bill (SB 401) was signed off by Governor Schwarzenegger just before April 15th, which is the tax deadline. This law gives a needed tax [...]
A good friend of mine wrote a song with a line in it that goes like this, “I need my soul stirred, I need a little inspiration, do you have what it takes to ride the rhythm and catch the breaks?” This line gripped me and as a result, I found myself pondering the topic [...]
Scotch Plains is a quaint, mostly residential suburban town in Union County with a population of around 21,000 people. It covers an area of almost 10 square miles. Scotch Plains is located in the southern tip of Union County with the town of Edison to the south and the city of Plainfield to the Eastern [...]
When it comes to real estate and home sales, it’s hard to compare to the beauty and charm of Columbia County. The homes in and around Columbia County are among the finest in GA, and the real estate in the community are often grand masterpieces. Bruce Dietz has been successfully selling the finest properties that [...]
Tracy Real Estate as other California cities have gone through a tough market downturn in recent years. 2010 seems to be the year that all this will change and things will start to look up. The state of California has recently passed a home buyer tax credit that will allow home buyers and new home [...]
The time has come. You’re ready to sell your house and the big question is: what price tag should you give it? Let me explain the crucial point you need to grasp before taking your next step. Experience has shown that the foundation of any successful home sale is based on applying the Price versus [...]
Westfield is a town in about 20 miles as-the-crow-flies from New York City. Six municipalities border the town, Mountainside to the north, Springfield Township to the northeast, Garwood and Cranford to the east, Clark to the southeast and Scotch Plains to the west and southwest. It is located near several major highways, the nearest exit [...]
