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Archive for December, 2008

Unintended Consequences

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I love to watch the pundits who write in the newspaper or speak on TV talk about things that are going on in the country and the world.  They talk about what various leaders are doing about the things they think are problems, then predict the outcome.  These folks get paid big bucks to tell us [...]

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Interesting Interest

Posted in Finance, General Real Estate Market, Real Estate, tagged , , on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Things are bouncing around again in the word of banking and interest rates.  I’ve talked with a couple of our lenders today, and they are excited about drops in the mortgage rates and are getting more applications.  We know that the Fed cut its overnight rate to banks down to 0.25% and below and said [...]

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A Taxing Situation

Posted in Iredell County, Mooresville, Real Estate, tagged , , on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Last week I did some research on house values in my neighborhood in Mooresville for a friend who is thinking about selling her home.  In the process of doing that, I looked at the listing information for a house nearby which had been listed and then withdrawn by the seller when school started.  When checking [...]

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Mooresville Marathon Singing

Posted in Iredell County, Mooresville, Quality of Life, tagged , on December 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Sunday was the culmination of many weeks of Wednesday night Christmas music practice for our choir at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Mooresville.  The choir presented a series of anthems, accompanied by our excellent bell choir, organist,  flutist (flautist?), clarinetist and cello player- all members of our church.  AND, we got to do it twice- [...]

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Mooresville Music on Sunday

Posted in Entertainment, Quality of Life, tagged , , on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

From my friend, Stu Eaton, who produces the Mooresville Concert Series: A Celtic Christmas Returns to Historic Downtown Mooresville Mooresville Concerts presents they Boston-based Celtic band The Beggar Boys on Sunday, December 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the Charles Mack Citizens’ Center, performing traditional and new carols and foot-stomping dance tunes from Ireland, Scotland, and [...]

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Carolinas Crystal Ball

Posted in General Real Estate Market, Real Estate, tagged , on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I often listen to the Charlotte Public Radio station, WFAE and in particular the program Charlotte Talks because of the good variety of topics that often are regional in nature.  On Wednesday the host, Mike Collins, talked with economist Dr. John Connaughton of UNC Charlotte. Dr. Connaughton is on the show from time to time [...]

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Keeping Up Our Values

Posted in Iredell County, Lake Norman, Lincoln County, Mecklenburg County, Real Estate, tagged on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Last weekend I read a newspaper column by Kenneth Harney who writes about the real estate and mortgage markets in the US.  His headline was “Home Values in Most Areas Rose Over 5 Years.”  Of course, that got my attention.  His lead paragraph says, “The latest federal statistics on housing prices in hundreds of local [...]

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Interpreting Real Estate Ads

Posted in Real Estate, tagged , , on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Lots of people spend time looking at real estate ads in books or at on-line listings.  The listing agents write the  descriptions of the properties in a way that will hopefully cause a buyer to call and inquire about it.  As a public service, below is a list of terms describing properties for sale and [...]

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Troutman(s) Back in the Day

Posted in Iredell County, Lake Norman, Troutman, tagged , on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Several years ago, I opened and managed a real estate office in Troutman for CENTURY 21 Hecht Realty.  I grew up in Troutman so I had a great time getting re-established in the community.  In the process of doing that, I was approached by a friend in Troutman who wanted to know if I’d like [...]

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Lake Norman Area Home Sales Snapshot

Posted in Iredell County, Lake Norman, Mecklenburg County, Real Estate, tagged , , , , , , on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Yes, I know that there’s all kinds of bad news out there that you can cry in your beer over, but just so you don’t get totally bummed out,  here is one of my regular reports on the Lake Norman area real estate activity over the last two weeks.  This is for single family homes, [...]

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