Did you ever wish you could easily find out what someone paid for a house that sold recently in your neighborhood? Now you can. Our Charlotte Regional Realtor Association is providing a tool that will allow you to do that, right down to a neighborhood- yours or any other- in our Multiple Listing Service areas. [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Bird Battle
Posted in Iredell County, Mooresville, Quality of Life, tagged hummingbirds, Iredell, Iredell County on August 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I recently spent a couple of hours near my hummingbird feeder watching the little guys fuss over the three feeding stations. I don’t know why they fight since there are usually no more than three hanging around at a time, but they sure do. Must be something about one of them being dominant. They’ll dive [...]
Property Tax Values- How Accurate?
Posted in Finance, General Real Estate Market, Real Estate, tagged Home Buyers, home prices, Home Sellers, property tax value, tax value on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I got my property tax bill from the good people at the Iredell County Tax Collector’s office the other day. Residents throughout the county and elsewhere are getting similar bills and thinking about how they’re going to pay them and if we really ought to have to pay that much for what we get. Sure, I [...]
Do You Like Hot Dogs?… Really Like ‘EM?
Posted in Iredell County, Lake Norman, Quality of Life, Troutman, tagged Hot dogs, J. Hoyt Hayes Memorial Troutman Library, Troutman, Troutman Area Council, Troutman Library on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you really do like hot dogs and also like money, you’ll want to go to Ole World Market in Troutman this Saturday, Aug. 29 and participate in the hot dog eating contest. Not much to it really- the fastest time to eat 8 hot dogs with 8 buns wins $1,000! You have to enter [...]
Who Can Afford a House?- Bad News, Good News
Posted in Finance, General Real Estate Market, Real Estate, tagged first time home buyers, Home Buyers, housing affordability, housing affordability index, Iredell County Real Estate, Lake Norman Real Estate on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I recently received a chart from the Charlotte Regional Realtor Association that compares the hourly wage required to buy an average priced home with the hourly wages of a variety of workers, several of them working for us in the public sector. We saw numbers for various parts of NC. Here are a couple of [...]
Negotiating an Offer- Yes, It’s a Big Deal!
Posted in General Real Estate Market, Real Estate, tagged Home Buyers, Home Sellers, real estate negotiation on August 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was talking to a good friend who’s a real estate agent I used to work with and who recently moved back to her home town of Charlotte to start up a real estate brokerage. After catching up on the news, we started talking about- guess what?- working with clients and helping them buy and sell real [...]
Which Remodeling Projects Give Best Value?
Posted in Quality of Life, Real Estate, tagged home improvement, Home Sellers, home selling on August 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some homeowners are holding off on selling their properties until the economy picks up. Still, they want to improve their surroundings without wasting money on the wrong projects. There are a number of specific improvement projects you can do that will be of greatest value when you do sell your home. Coldwell Banker has a number [...]
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