If you live in the south or the southeast, and are in the real estate business, sooner or later you will encounter a home for sale that is sided with synthetic stucco, or as it is also referred to, EIFS. EIFS stands for Exterior Insulation and Finishing System. This product has been around for at [...]
|
||||||
 |
Have you ever taken the time to Google your address? A recent message I received from www.trulia.com, a very popular home search website, provided several reasons why it would be a good idea to see what you can find out by searching your address. For example: 1. Megan’s Law. Find out who is living in your [...]
I heard a story the other day about a buyer all set to go to closing until she found out that there was radon present in the home. Because she was still in her due diligence period, she terminated the contract. It turns out that the test performed to determine Radon levels showed that the [...] Over the past few weeks I have received a lot of phone calls from clients, past and present, who reside in Mecklenburg County. The topic they wanted to discuss: their new real property assessment. Real property is only re-evaluated every eight years, and no one likes it when the official letter arrives in the mail. [...] At the end of last December Standard & Poors released their most current Case-Shiller Home Sales Index data for 2010. While the data is only through October, it is the most current release from S&P. The data shows Charlotte as one of only six cities in the country to post home prices lower than when prices began [...]
If you want to consider your Lake Norman home a part of the greater Charlotte real estate market, then here’s the latest data from the S & P Case Shiller Index: Home prices in August fell 3.4% versus the same time frame last year. That ranks Charlotte third among ten cities that posted [...] I had a conversation yesterday with a good friend, and he said to me, “As soon as home prices come up some my wife and I want to sell our house and find a town house. I’m tired of yard work.” I hear the “as soon as prices come up” qualifier a lot in the [...] A man walked into my office the other day inquiring about a home that had a defaulted FHA mortgage, and he was interested in making an offer on it. The home in question was now a HUD home. What’s a HUD home, you ask? Well, a home that has been financed with a loan insured by [...] When it comes to real estate transactions, it’s not just haggling over the price that can be stressful. Sellers need to make some decisions about their home before they list it for sale. One of those issues that can be confusing is the definition of “Fixture.” To understand how the NC Real Estate Commission views fixtures, [...] It’s January 1, 2010, so Happy New Year to all of you! As is our tradition in the USA, and maybe elsewhere, it’s time to assess what we might do this year better than we did last year. What we might try that we never have, what we might stop that we haven’t been able [...] |
|||||
|
Copyright © 2012 Fran Park’s Real Estate Blog – Lake Norman Homes - All Rights Reserved |
||||||
