One of the topics that comes up in talking with potential clients who want to sell their homes is, “How long will it take to sell my property?” Well, as they say, it depends. It depends on a lot of factors such as: Condition of the property- buyers have lots of choices, and most want [...]
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How Long to Sell a House?
Posted in General Real Estate Market, tagged Days on market, real estate market statistics on July 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
QR Code? What’s that?
Posted in General Real Estate Market, internet, Mooresville, tagged QR Code, QR Code real estate on June 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Lately you may have begun to see a curious little printed block on various advertisements. It’s square and has a bunch of little squares inside the block. These are called QR Codes, meaning Quick Response Codes. They look random, but they actually represent a relatively new way to communicate, sort of along the lines of the bar [...]
Reminder- All Real Estate is Local
Posted in General Real Estate Market, Huntersville, Iredell County, Lake Norman, Lincoln County, Mecklenburg County, Mooresville, Mount Mourne, Rowan County, Statesville, Troutman, tagged Case-Shiller Home Price Index, charlotte area real estate sales on June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The monthly Case-Shiller housing study came out recently and was quoted extensively by the national press. If you believed those media folks who get totally excited by getting to report negative news, the whole country continues to sag in a real estate bust. Of course, they don’t focus on the fact that the report addresses only 20 [...]
What You Must Know About Home Appraisals
Posted in General Real Estate Market, Real Estate, tagged appraisal, appraisals, mortgage appraisals, real estate appraisals on May 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Property appraisals are on many people’s minds lately, especially with the recent revaluation for tax purposes in Iredell and Mecklenburg Counties. They are more difficult to accomplish with good accuracy nowadays because the volume of sales is down so finding enough comparable sales is more difficult than ever. Below is a great article provided by [...]
Real Estate Technology vs Old School Skills
Posted in Charlotte, General Real Estate Market, tagged Home Buyers, Home Sellers, real estate technology, technology on May 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday Coldwell Banker held a meeting in Charlotte to give their area agents additional information about the effective use of all the technology that they make available to agents and their clients in marketing and buying homes. I attended and added some useful tools to my repertoire. I’m a pretty “techie” guy for my age- my [...]
I’m Up in the Air!
Posted in General Real Estate Market, Iredell County, Lake Norman, Mooresville, tagged circle of excellence, Coldwell Banker Circle of Excellence Award on April 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A few weeks ago I wrote about being given the honor of being included in Coldwell Banker Circle of Excellence based on my real estate sales performance last year. It’s nice to get recognition for putting in a lot of hard work and long hours. Now, to top that off, I can be seen hanging [...]
What’s the Future of Mortgages?
Posted in Finance, General Real Estate Market, tagged Mortgage, mortgage lenders, mortgage loans, mortgages on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In the aftermath of the financial meltdown, much of which was brought on by mortgages that were too easy to get by people who were “iffy” at best regarding their ability to repay their mortgage, we are beginning to see discussions about how mortgages should be arranged and marketed in the future. This is part [...]




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