Living in The Rural Triangle

Chatham County and North Carolina saw lower than expected traffic according to the Credit Suisse Realtor Survey.  As a monthly contributor to the report for the area, I get sent copies of the report which I share with my clients and my agents. A copy of the full report can be downloaded here http...

Buying a house in Pittsboro or other parts of Chatham County is not unlike buying a house in any other part of the Triangle or the Country for that matter, with one exception.  Chatham has in the past been one of the fastest growing Counties in the region, the Country even.  So depending on your ...

Part 1:  The Perk Test In this installment I'm going to spend some time on the process for buying or selling undeveloped land in Chatham County.  This process is for undeveloped land and not improved lots that you typically find in a developed subdivision.  With the case of improved lots, the dev...

Have you and/or your agents go to http://download.live.com/messenger to download Windows Live Messenger. Then go to Windows LIve at http://login.live.com and get an ID you plan to share with anyone that takes floor duty. Only one person should be logged in at a time with that ID, the agent on dut...

Chatham County's home sales were off in August by 12% year of year from last August.  In 2008, Chatham had 54 home transactions according to the Triangle MLS system.  For 2009 that number was down slightly by 6 to 48 home transactions, indicating a slowing of the drop in year over year home sales...

With today's market, many people are thinking about alternatives to selling their existing house, especially if they are trying to move do to a job or other relocation need.  Before you go looking for that new house before the rental agreement ink has dried, you need to check with your mortgage c...

A few months ago I stumbled upon this new technology out of the Microsoft Live Labs called Photosynth.  Now I have had photo stitching software technology before to do my own virtual tours.  Anyone remember the now defunct PixMaker from PixAround?   But Microsoft is on to something here.  I mean ...

Four years ago, we had a land rush here in Chatham County, the rural part of the Triangle.  Seems that every developer was reading off the same report and they each thought they had the only copy.  All the sudden there were dozens of new developments being announced, all with homes starting in t...

When I bought my first RE/MAX franchise, I was surprised at the lack of technology available for the modern real-estate office.  And what was available seemed to be outdated and expensive. For example, I went looking for something better than Microsoft Outlook to use as a real-estate CRM system. ...

Click on the image below to view a video photo tour of 245 Sky Lane at Jordan Lake.