This past Friday night my son and I went to an Atlanta Braves game.  We did not have tickets before the game, but my son said he was going to buy them on Stubhub.  I could not believe how great our seats were – we were right behind the 3rd base dugout.  After talking to [...]

Recent technology has told us that the way people look at real estate has evolved – 91% of buyers are coming to the Internet as their first step in searching for a property so it has become very important how your property is shown online.  The photos of your property online usually determine whether someone [...]

About five years ago I had a couple call me to do an updated market analysis of their home on Hilton Head Island.  At that time they decided not to sell. About a month ago they called me and asked me to come back to their home to give them an idea of what their [...]

I was recently at a real estate conference and one of the Realtors was talking about their listing process.  He said one of the questions he often asks sellers is whether they want to list to sit or list to sell.  In today’s market, this is a very smart question.  I often think of the [...]

Nobody is happy. That’s right, in this real estate market, nobody is happy – not even the buyers.  I did not realize this until I was talking to a Realtor friend of mine from Chicago today.  We, as Realtors, think that purchasers are happy and excited because they are getting some phenomenal deals in this [...]

Here is a brief recap of what happened in the Hilton Head Island real estate market during the month of June.  We had 47 homes sell on Hilton Head during the month of June; compared to 124 home sales during the same time period in 2005 – which was the top of the market.  We [...]

There was an article in the local Island Packet today that discussed home prices rising over the last several months (based on a survey of 20 cities). I was talking to a client of mine and they said they did not know who to believe; one day the newspaper says that things are getting better [...]

One of the Realtors in my office recently had a listing appointment.  During this meeting, they went over all the research showing what the house would sell for in today’s market.  A couple days later the owners of the property sent a letter to their Realtor saying why they thought their house was worth approximately [...]

I recently had a meeting with a client about a property and they had a lot of questions.  I knew everything about the house – who the previous owner was, how many square feet were in the house, when it was built, what it previously sold for, when it sold, etc.  My client stopped to [...]

There have been some new discussion with mortgages and regimes. There is a law that says that  if a certain number of people are behind in their regime payments within a certain condo complex, lenders are not allowed to lend in these developments.  This is really making it hard to sell some condos because they [...]