How do I find out, in advance, all of the closing costs and fees related buying real estate here?
Whether you’re buying or selling real estate you should be able to calculate the majority of closing costs prior to closing …
The World Wide Web has opened the doors of information for real estate consumers. The possibilities are almost limitless. Online home searches are a breeze, public and tax information is a click away and even community information, walk-ability statistics and …
Naturally, this is the time of the year southwest Florida is visited by tourists. This year those visitors recognized some of the tremendous real estate values and were inspired to start buying real estate.
We’ve had a robust winter sales …
How Real Estate Buyers Win the ContractLittle would anyone imagine that this winter there would be a market so brisk that we’d be facing multiple offer scenarios. Multiple offers as in someone besides you, the savvy buyer, has decided to place a purchase offer on the same piece …
Most condominium owners have a set of docs that perform little practical function other than taking up space on a shelf or in a cabinet. That is, if they bothered to keep them at all. Those documents are the rules for …
Today I was asked, “Why are there so many homes for sale in Hunters Ridge Bonita Springs ?” Here’s the scoop … simply looking at the number of homes or units of real estate for sale online isn’t a true statistic.
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So you keep making offers on property and not “getting the deal”. I’ve gotten a couple of emails from buyers asking that same question who feel there are shenanigans going on. Without first hand knowledge of the actual transactions, there are …
Buyer’s remorse is a sneaky little thing that creeps its way into the hearts and heads of home buyers when nobody’s looking. Somewhere between, “heck yeah, we’re buying a house” and the settlement date something happens and the tides turn.
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For the second time this week I was asked by a buyer what that our real estate market is averaging for the percentage off of list price. That question still surprises me because the real estate market has had a few …
What compels a seller to accept one offer over another besides dollars and cents? Putting aside the black and white aspect of a business decision based solely on numbers, image that you’re in a position where the offer you are placing …