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Selling your home can sometimes be very inconvenient.  It can mean a disruption of your normal routine, less privacy and more effort to keep your house clean.  However, these are necessary if you want to sell your home fast.For starters, you need to prepare your home for the sale.  You need to ex...
01/11/2008
We conducted the Sherry Wilson & Co. - Remax Leaders team meeting this week to combine individual goals into a goal for the entire team for 2008.  As a team we were fortunate in that we closed over 200 transactions for the year of 2007.  Figuring the market to remain relatively stable our goal is...
01/04/2008
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An analysis of todays Mortgage market finds the following information.The employment situation reading of new jobs created completely fell short of even the worst expectations. There couldn't be any better news for mortgage rates.As a result, look for the best rates you've seen in over 2 years th...
01/04/2008
Sellers are still struggle with the decline in housing prices throughout the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and the question remains "How do I price my home to sell?"The first part of the process is setting the right price.Most sellers think of 1) price 2) condition 3) market  In a buyers market t...
01/04/2008
Selling your home fast in this Buyers market (edit/delete) One of the most important things to consider is price. You may want to reduce the price of your home or, at the very beginning, set it at a low price that will generate more buyer interest.  If within 14 days of listing and you have not h...
01/04/2008
Vacation home sales are enjoying a moderate growth.  Average buyers age is 44 and one third of those buyers are making plans to eventually make their vacation home their full time residence.Here are some great reasons to consider buying a vacation home in the Shenandoah Valley.1)  It is a buyers ...
01/04/2008
The National Association of Realtors chief economist (Lawrence Yun), is expecting a modest recovery for existing home sales in 2008.  The housing market will improve by a steady unleashing of pent up demand as well as from a diverse abundance of safe mortgage products.  The Real Estate market rem...
01/04/2008
Unemployment is low and has been holding steady for the past two years.  US personal income held steady in 2007 as well.  GDP (Gross Domestic Product) forecast is projecting growth in 2008.  Home mortgage interest rates remain historically low.  All of these factors point to a stable US Economy. ...
01/04/2008
2007 is on pace to show a 1.15% increase in average sales price nationally!It remains a constant, over time the value of your home will increase. Year ...........Homes Sold........Avg. Price2004...........6.7 million.........$195,4002005..........7.0 million..........$219,6002006..........6.4 mil...
01/04/2008
5th highest year on record for homes sales!  Hard for many to beleive this fact when the media continues its doom and gloom campaign on the state of the Real Estate market.Check out these statistics, and discover that 2007 was not such a bad year after all.  Combine this fact with the fact that t...
01/04/2008
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