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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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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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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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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 [...]

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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?  [...]

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