Newtown, PA-First Saturday Street Event in Newtown
A pair of First Saturday events between rival business associations offers a unique experience in Newtown.
While Newtown area businesses are preparing for not one, but two, First Saturday events this weekend, organizers focus on catering to customers instead of “tension” between two local business associations.
The Newtown Corporation and the [...]
The topic that has generated the most resposne and interest, in my blogging, has been the issue of filing real estate tax appeals in Bucks County. I have reported in previous posts, how easy the process is, and have offerred suggestions as to the best ways to go about filing appeals.
I have also posted on [...]
Had a property that was scheduled to close yesterday morning. Buyers are putting down almost 40%, and have credit scores around 800. Perfect buyers, one would think.
This is a classic story that reinforces my belief that buyers of real estate are so much better off using a local mortgage company, than going direct to a [...]
We read all the time, statistics about real estate from all over the country.
Real estate is, and always has been, local. It is local, sometimes even down to neighborhood by neighborhood.
I always track statistical information about real estate in Yardley, Newtown, Lower Makefield Township, Upper Makefield Township, and many of the communities that I serve.
People [...]
Saw a really intersting article this morning, by Alan Heavens, the terrific real estate columnist in the Philadelphia Inquirer, about where real estate prices are in the Philadelphia region today, compared with many other parts of the country.
What this article explained, is consistent with what I have been telling people ever since the real estate [...]
If you live anywhere in the area around Yardley, Newtown, or in the Bucks County, Pa. area, then you know that the past few days have been absolutely gorgeous. Spring is finally in the air!
With temperatures in the 60′s and even 70′s, the outdoor activities in the area, are in full bloom.
As I mentioned in [...]
In my last post, I took a close look at real estate statistics through February of 2010, for Lower Makefield Township.
Today, we will see what is happening with the real estate market, in Newtown Township, Bucks County.
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The following information, regarding the real estate market in Lower Makefield Township, in Bucks County, are taken directly from our MLS data.
Please refer to the charts below, which will show the following as we look at real estate statistics, through February of 2010:
Inventory of homes for sale in Lower Makefield Township at the end of [...]
Continue Reading >JUST LISTED! Enjoy my photoshow of my new listing in Yardley Run! An amazing 4 bedroom colonial on a huge lot!
Continue Reading >I have written a number of posts in the past, about various ways to improve the value of your house, if you are considering selling real estate in Yardley, Newtown or anywhere in Bucks County.
In this post, I am going to take the opposite approach, and suggest 5 things that decrease a home’s value, when [...]