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Lake Norman Area Real Estate Stats- Where to Get ‘Em

Posted in General Real Estate Market, Iredell County, Lake Norman, Mecklenburg County, Real Estate, tagged , on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Did you know that as of today (June 19, 2009) Iredell County has 1189 active single family home listings ranging from $19,500 to $5,000,000 with an average of $232,885? Did you know that in May of 2009, Iredell County had 138 closings with a average closed price of $239,386? Want to see more real estate [...]

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Affordable Housing in Lake Norman Area

Posted in Iredell County, Lake Norman, Mecklenburg County, tagged , on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Our Realtor Association’s  Housing Opportunity Foundation hosted a workshop for Lake Norman area Realtors a couple of days ago.  Speakers were from Davidson Housing Coalition, Community Housing Development Corp. of Mooresville/South Iredell, and United Family Services.  Statesville Housing Authority was invited, but couldn’t attend.  I was there and was impressed with the assistance these folks [...]

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Longer Mortgage Processing Times

Posted in Finance, General Real Estate Market, Real Estate, tagged , , on June 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Yesterday I got a note from one of my recommended lenders, Neil Jackson of LKN Lending Group, who mentioned a new wrinkle in processing loans, and how that is taking longer than it had been prior to May 1.  Here’s what he said: “I was speaking with several of account representatives from local mortgage lenders, [...]

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Vegetable Adventures

Posted in Mooresville, Real Estate on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It was a great weekend for many reasons- got a lot of chores done and marked off my “Honey Do” list, got in some time in my shop, and very specially started getting some vegetables out of my little Mooresville garden.  Picked some squash, zucchini, bell peppers and cucumbers.  The tomatoes are growing strong and will be [...]

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Statesville Pursuing All-America City Award

Posted in Iredell County, Lake Norman, Quality of Life, Statesville, tagged on June 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Next week, representatives from Statesville will be in Tampa, FL to tell their story to the National Civic League in hopes of becoming an All-America City.  In April, Statesville was named among 32 finalists who had gone after the award. From the National Civic League web site: “The All-America City Award is America’s oldest and [...]

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Rent to Own Pros and Cons

Posted in Finance, General Real Estate Market, Real Estate, tagged , on June 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Just ran across a very good article on the pros and cons of the rent to own approach to buying a home.  With more people having to work through credit issues before buying, and more sellers looking for a way to generate cash from their house sitting on the market, we see a good bit [...]

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Expanded Home Buyer Tax Credits?

Posted in Finance, General Real Estate Market, Real Estate, tagged on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Should Congress expand the tax credit to a higher figure and make it for all buyers, not just first time buyers?  There’s a good bit of chatter out there about doing just that.  The pro’s are that since there is pretty good agreement that the basis of our current economic problems is the poor housing [...]

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Win $15,000 Makeover Money (for your house)

Posted in Quality of Life, Real Estate, tagged on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I know lots of folks would like to spend $15,000 on a personal makeover, but since I’m in the Real Estate business, all I’ve got available is for a home makeover   Having recently done a makeover on our kitchen, I can appreciate how great it would be for one of my friends to win [...]

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Real Estate Sales Volume Down/Up for the Charlotte Region

Posted in General Real Estate Market, Real Estate on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Looking at some of the recent statistics for sales volume in our area that I receive from the Carolina Multiple Listing Service, we’ve got a mix of bad news and good news (isn’t that usually the case somehow?). Through April ’09 • Residential closings reported April 09 – 1,773 (Iredell County had 96 of those, and [...]

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Hydrail Radio Program Available On-line

Posted in Charlotte, Mooresville, tagged , on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

If you missed hearing the Charlotte Talks segment on public radio station WFAE about the upcoming Hydrail Conference  that I mentioned last Friday, you can hear a recorded version HERE.  Interesting stuff.

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