To sell as many homes as CENTURY 21, you have to understand the process that the HOME BUYER undergoes … and this is always changing. Just as other industries have had their standards of practice turned upside-down by the internet, so too has the real estate brokerage business. The process of marketing a home to [...]
Joe Manausa
When we study the homes for sale in Tallahassee and its surrounding communities, we find a trend that is often mentioned by Dr. Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist for the National Association of REALTORS®. Dr. Yun has been reported a rising trend in the number of real estate contracts that fail to close, and the Tallahassee [...]
I received an email from my Mother yesterday that brought a smile to my face, it was filled with pictures of my brothers and myself, each taken on the day that we became Tallahassee Eagle Scouts. Of course, the email went out to “all the boys,” and it did not take long before the whole [...]
The purpose of the relocation industry is to better facilitate the process of moving people from one community to another. When a local home buyer decides to buy a home, so much of the process of moving is not a big deal. But when a buyer from another community relocates to Tallahassee, many more concerns need to be addressed. A relocation expert will make that process go much smoother.
There is a new leader at CENTURY 21. Richard W. “Rick” Davidson was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Century 21 Real Estate on February 19, 2010 after the resignation of Tom Kunz. Mr. Davidson takes the helm of the real estate industry leader after four of the worst years the housing market has [...]
Do you really need A REALTOR®? If you have a home to sell, it sure seems like a good idea to figure out how to save as much money as possible since home values are not where they once were. If you could sell your home without a REALTOR®, wouldn’t you be adding a whole [...]
Winter will be departing soon and the seasonal changes that are approaching always stimulate the Tallahassee housing market. If you need to sell your home, you have a great chance now, so don’t blow it! For you to realize success in selling a home, you have to be knowledgeable on how to determine the home [...]
I was having a discussion yesterday with a great real estate agent (Bill Peck) who was lamenting to me that his home buyers had received three Good Faith Estimates (GFE) from different mortgage companies and they were much more scattered in their estimates than we have traditionally seen. For those of you who did not [...]
