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I withdrew one of my Iredell County listings today by mutual agreement with my seller clients.  We had put the house on the market last spring, and priced it according to what little history was available in the community for similar houses.  We agreed that if the house didn’t get some showings, the sellers would [...]

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It’s always interesting to see experts (some of my favorite people) write articles that fly in the face of common sense or generally accepted assumptions.  Sometimes these experts turn out to be whackos or professionals just hoping to get a little attention in their field and a spotlight in the press.  Most of the time in hindsight [...]

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Time for the monthly bunch of numbers from our local Carolina Multiple Listing Service which includes Mecklenburg and surrounding counties.  These numbers can give you an idea of the time it takes to sell a house and how the prices are trending.  There is still a bit of a mixed bag, but overall, things do [...]

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For those of you who love to look at numbers and draw conclusions, here are some residential real estate stats from December of ’09 for our Carolinas Multiple Listing Service area of Mecklenburg and surrounding counties.  My own opinion is that positive change in average price numbers is worth considering to a degree, but the contract [...]

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The good news is that there are buyers out there, especially since the passage of the expanded home buyer tax credit which now offers a tax credit for current homeowners who want to sell their home and buy another primary home (see details HERE). The problem is that some of those people thinking of selling their [...]

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…Speaking of real estate prices (see yesterday’s post), real estate professionals have always said that one of the key factors in a home’s price is location.  Still, since most people spend most of their time in only one location, this fact can be hard to grasp.  Well, Coldwell Banker recently released a study of the cost [...]

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When you see published reports of average house sales prices in the media, it’s good to keep in mind that there is always a seasonal component to the ups and downs of average house prices.  HERE is a recent Charlotte Observer article on the monthly S&P/ Case-Shiller Home Price Index report telling of some ups and [...]

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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 [...]

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My friend, Bill Thunberg, Mooresville businessman and mayor, sent me a link to Forbes Magazine article about a new housing price index from  a company called Clear Capital.  Bill’s son, Zach, works for this company.  Clear Capital is starting a new housing price index that claims to be more accurate than the S&P/Case Shiller report that [...]

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The most recent Standard & Poors/Case Shiller home pricing report shows that prices of Charlotte area homes are down 10% over April of 2008 (see the Charlotte Observer article HERE).  Our area was one of the last to be affected by the downturn, and since some of the hardest hit areas are starting to improve [...]

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