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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘home pricing’
Struggling with List Prices
Posted in General Real Estate Market, Iredell County, tagged home prices, home pricing, home sales, Home Sellers, Iredell County Real Estate, iredell real estate, mortgage rates on July 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
No Point in Listing Too High
Posted in Finance, General Real Estate Market, Real Estate, tagged $6, $8000 tax credit, 500 tax credit, home prices, home pricing, home sales, Home Sellers, home selling, mortgages, tax credit on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Home Prices- Location, Location, Location
Posted in Finance, General Real Estate Market, Real Estate, tagged home price comparison, home price survey, home prices, home pricing, home values on October 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…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 [...]
Area Home Prices Show Decline- What to Do?
Posted in Iredell County, Lake Norman, Real Estate, tagged home prices, home pricing, Home Sellers on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Price History on MLS- Did You Know?
Posted in General Real Estate Market, tagged Home Buyers, home pricing, Home Sellers, price history on February 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When I was much younger, I was a fan of the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show on TV. They had lots of funny bits their characters would do, and one of them that has stuck in my mind was when the young scientific geek Sherman and his amazingly intelligent dog, Mr. Peabody, would go back in [...]
Why in the World Would I Sell My House Now?
Posted in Finance, General Real Estate Market, Real Estate, tagged home pricing, homes sales, real estate market on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why, indeed? You’d think that based on what the media gloom and doom writers have to say, you’d better wait until the bottom of the housing market comes. You can pick the bottom, can’t you? No? You mean you’ll know when we’ve seen the bottom only when we see it in the rear view mirror? [...]





