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  Looks like the month of July, 2008 shows a sustained recovery for the Princeton Junction real estate market. As you can see from the table below, the average sale price is up over the previous 2 months, the average days on the market is steady with the previous month and bettern than 2 months a...

For several years now I've used a really great, inexpensive company for my personal toll free number  which I put on all of my marketing pieces, email signatures, business cards, web sites and yard signs. I also use them for a toll free fax-to-email number.  The company is called Kall8 and for on...

James Simmons | RE/MAX Greater Princeton | 800-757-8365 Bucknell Ct., South Brunswick, NJ Great price for such a new home! 3BR/2.5BA Single Family House offered at $439,999 Year Built 1992 Sq Footage Unspecified Bedrooms 3 Bathrooms 2 full, 1 partial Floors 2 Parking Unspecified Lot Size .17 acr...

The Hampshire, Plainsboro, NJ. Wow, for all the talk of a "depressed" real estate market, I don't see any indication of that here! In the past month (June 2008) SEVEN Hampshire Townhouses closed, FOUR have been reported under contract, and there are only 5 available in the MLS system as of today....

This is simple enough and probably something you may have heard before in the past. If so, then take this as a good reminder: Commit to making one 'difficult' call within the first few minutes of your day EVERY DAY. You know the call I'm talking about. Maybe it's to the irate seller, maybe to tel...

Another month is over and it was a good one! West Windsor, in Mercer County, NJ has continued to outpace most of the rest of the state and immediate area with brisk home sales and steady prices. As you can see from the spreadsheet below, June saw a decline in the number of homes coming on the mar...

Here's a quick one to think about that should free up plenty of your valuable time: How much time do you think you waste checking your email? Way too much I bet. Try to make it a habit to only check your email twice a day. I'd say late morning after your prospecting or 15 minutes before a lunch b...

I had a short discussion with an agent recently about our web leads and how we contact them. "If they give me a phone number on the registration page of my website, I'll call them immediately or as soon as possible" I said. The other agent replied that she has done that a couple of times but got ...

I have recently found that many libraries across the country offer free audio book downloads right to your computer. I've downloaded some really great ones that help me in this business. It's really easy to do and with hundreds of libraries participating, there's a good chance yours does too. To...

I just got off the phone with a prospective buyer calling about one of my listings. It's a fair priced, newer home in a desireable town. Maybe it's 10k too high but not too bad. So he says, "$439,900 for that? They're out of their minds! The market is terrible, sales are down, banks are failing l...