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We have received so many inquiries via our new Tallahassee Foreclosures Web Site about purchasing Tallahassee foreclosures that I am feeling like a recorded message. Many buyers want the perceived deals that “foreclosures” imply, so I figured I would lay out some advice that really fits our current times.
With so many of our homes upside-down [...]
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If you have no desire to sell your home, you might be interested in finding out how to lower your property taxes. Anybody who has been following the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog for any period of time can tell you that property values in Tallahassee have fallen as much as 25% in some areas, but [...]
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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 [...]
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Most home owners who interview real estate agents for the job of selling their home are not prepared for this most important task in getting the home sold. More often than not, the homeowner is most curious about what the agent thinks the home is worth, rather than the more important issues on which they [...]
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Every month around this time, I am itching to discover the changes in supply and demand in the Tallahassee MLS so that I can anticipate market price movements. What I am hoping to find is an increase in home sales versus the same month in the prior year, and an overall reduction in the inventory [...]
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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 read [...]
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The 25th of each month is the day when we get to see the latest existing-home sales report that is published by the National Association of REALTORS®, so it is a day marked on my calendar for monthly action.
I always look forward to both reading the report as well as reading and hearing the interpretation [...]
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Yesterday, I received a great comment by a Destin, FL REALTOR® who pointed out that the shadow inventory of homes has many more components than just the defaulted mortgage pool. His example was of homes in a new neighborhood, developed in 2005, where all of the home owners are now upside-down on their mortgages.
As he [...]
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Today is a short post, inspired by a recent reader question, that allows us to pursue a “statistic” that many “real estate professionals” quote, but few truly understand. Today’s topic is about the relationship between the asking price and the selling price (sales price to list price ratio) of homes that have recently sold.
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