Brett Ellis's (brettellis) Blog

By
Real Estate Agent - RE/MAX Realty Group
RECENT BLOG POSTS
Getting ready to do our weekly radio show where we recap the 2006 year.  This will be a fun show as we go back into the archives and look at what our predictions were for 2006 and see how right/wrong we were.  On next weeks show we'll give our predictions for 2007.Here's your chance, both as cons...
12/27/2006
a local broker called me yesterday to tell me about Jean Harvey with Harvey & Associates.  Jean evidently closed her doors yesterday and decided to move her team over to another company and help manage that company.  The broker called us because Jean used to work for our team a few years ago befo...
12/21/2006
Linda Davis memed me today.  It's all part of the first Active Rain Meme.  I'm supposed to tell you 5 thingies about myself and then meme 3 others.I've selected Amy Stoehr, John Bendall, and Brian Hall as my Memes. 1.  I appeared on the hit TV show Elimidate while visiting friends Rick Edler and ...
12/21/2006
It's true, SW Florida real estate foreclosrues are rising in Lee County.  I spoke with a RE/MAX agent in our Fort Myers office today who has listed several.  He comments that banks are trying to list properties for what they have in them, which isn't going to work, or the seller would have sold i...
12/21/2006
SW Florida's housing prices will stop falling according to noted Florida economist Hank Fishkind.  Hank doesn't see a price collapse, but rather a flattening of prices.  Buyers are moving here, and transactions are occurring.  It will take some time however to eat into the excess inventory, which...
12/15/2006
Latest article on our SW Florida Real Estate Blog about the difference between a Market Correction Vs. a Market Crash. This article make make both buyers and sellers think before offering on a property or setting an asking price, and should serve as a guide for Realtors who may also want to use t...
12/11/2006
Most people want to paint the housing market in one broad stroke.  We all know various pricae ranges do better or worse than other in any given market, and certainly different classes and types vary as well.  One such difference occurs in the Single Family Vs. Condo markets here in SW Florida.Vis...
12/10/2006
An agent on our team wrote an interesting Blog article about his experiences selling a home in Cape Coral Florida to a client of his.  It is a good story and there is a valuable lesson, so I thought I'd post it here.He posted it on his Firt Time Home Buyer Blog.
12/09/2006
The SW Florida real estate market showed its first signs of rebounding these past few weeks, as single family home inventory actually declined and pending sales increased.  This trend reversal was a first in both categories all year.  We predicted this may happen as buyer calls have increased sig...
12/09/2006
Today we conducted a study as to which price ranges are hot and which are not in the SW Florida real estate market.  As you might guess, the lower the price range, the hotter the market as Lee County is a price sensitive market today.  We did find some suprising hot spots in the upper price range...
12/04/2006
Rainer
12,940

Brett Ellis

local_phone(239) 489-4042
Contact The Author