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Would you like a Free Market Watch ?
If you’re going to be moving to our beautiful city of Charleston in the next few months, try our FREE Market watch and get weekly updates of all the homes that come on the market in any price range and area you choose – email me sending your name and Email address and we [...]
Sold Terms and Market Statistics Criteria: Status: S, Category: ALL Statistics for Entire Mls from 1/1/2010 to 3/31/2010
Below are the statistics for the Charleston Real Estate Market.The 1st January through the 31st March 2010. As you can see the sales price to list price is about 5% which is closer than it was last year. There have been over 300 cash buyers which is quite surprising. Majority of sales are still conventional.
1. Create deals, don’t wait for them.
Steve authors a monthly informational presentation for top professionals titled “Keeping Current Matters.” The following is an article from his monthly newsletter Over the last 18 months, the real estate industry has almost become dependent on government’s help. We hope that programs like the tax credit or the Fed’s purchase of mortgage-backed- securities will be [...]
Are you smarter than a First year Realtor.Business Meeting 3/25/2010
In our meeting today we played “Are you Smarter than a First Year Realtor” idea of course taking from the TV show “Are you smarter than a fifth grader.” It was fun and informative. We had the following three subjects, with nine questions. Listing Contract 1st year •Listing Contract 3rd year •Listing Contract 5th year [...]
Why Carolina One (cont.,)
When you work as an Real Estate entrepreneur, under the umbrella of a High Profile Company both Locally and Nationally such as Carolina One Real Estate, it gives you instant Credibility with your clients, plus possibly new clients. Therefore, increasing your business just by being with our company. The consumer has confidence in our abilities. [...]
The Benefits of Pre-approval
Why do you want me to get pre-approved before I find a house I want to buy? This a question asked many times by buyers. So I thought I would take a moment to answer. When a borrower applies for a mortgage before finding a house, and receives a written commitment from a lender to [...]
Information Required for loan application
It can be confusing when you’re going for a loan application to know what information your loan originator will require so I thought I would share with you some of the information you will be asked for. First Personal Information: Names of buyers as you would like them to appear on the deed. Social Security numbers [...]
Texting in our business
•BC Because P&C Private & Confidential •BTW By the way QQ Quick Question •CU See you RFD Request for discussion •THX Thanks DRIB Don’t read if busy •EOD End of day U Yo YW Your welcome OTP On the phone The above abbreviations for texting are just a few of so many. Being from the [...]
How Financing effects the List Price to Sales Price
At our Business meeting on February 24th I shared with our team that there had been 864 sales closed in our Charleston Multiple Listing Service in the first seven weeks of the year. So the question was, “Could anyone guess how many were FHA Sales. (Goverment Lending).” A great deal of numbers were thrown out, [...]
The Market Then and Now
These Graphs are showing the Charleston Tri-County Real Estate Market. Sales and Listings in 2009 & also in 2005 to show you the comparisons. The one on the left is the market in the year 2009 if you click on the graph it will enlarge so you can see the numbers. The pink is the [...]
