Many folks believe that very few houses are selling, and that almost no one can get a mortgage. Along with Keeping Current Matters, I want to let everyone know that neither of these assumptions is true.
A few weeks ago, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released their Existing Homes Sales Report. According to the [...]
I am part of an extremely productive and active networking group that meets every Tuesday morning at 7:00 am. We meet at the Yardley Inn for breakfast. Our single goal in our networking group is to generate business for each other. We have about 40 great professionals in our group, which is called Le Tip [...]
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Time to take a look at what happened in our real estate market in Bucks County and Yardley in 2011.
As noted on the Bucks County real estate chart below, we can see that the number of houses sold in all of Bucks County was 3% less than the number of houses sold in 2010. (There [...]
The issue of so-called “low ball offers” comes up relatively frequently these days, for both buyers and sellers of houses in Yardley, Newtown, and all over Bucks County.
I have worked with buyers, who erroneously feel as though the real estate market in Yardley is similar to the real estate market in Arizona. Those buyers often [...]
Most people know that there are parts of Bucks County, where real estate is very expensive. In 2007, the most expensive Bucks County home sold for $5,850,000! In the same year, there were six homes that sold for more than $3 million, and another that sold for more than $4 million!
Fast forward to 2011. Drum [...]
I’m posting for the last time in 2011!
Don’t know where the year went.
For me, it was a productive and successful real estate year. For that, I am totally grateful and thankful for the buyers and sellers who trusted me to handle their real estate transactions, and I am also extremely thankful and appreciative of the [...]
Hope that all of you who celebrated Christmas yesterday had a wonderful Christmas celebration with your family.
I know that today is a holiday for many, but the wonderful world of real estate never sleeps, so I had an appointment to show one of my listings to a buyer. Turns out, the buyer was a very [...]
Hard to believe that we are just a week away from Christmas!
From a Yardley real estate perspective, we are now 11 months into data for 2011. Let’s see where we are, both with Yardley real estate and Bucks County real estate.
Bucks County real estate
Units Sold: Looking at numbers for all of Bucks County, the number [...]
If you think wiping down counters and fluffing a few pillows in advance of the guest onslaught will land you on Santa’s “nice” list this holiday season, maybe you should check that to-do list twice. You can bring your home to sparkling guest-readiness without going overboard. Here are a few tips from the New York [...]
Continue Reading >This Saturday, December 3rd, promises to be an interesting and exciting day in Yardley, Pa.
First, you will have a great opportunity to enjoy a “Lake Afton Holiday” at the Old Library building (see photo), situated on beautiful Lake Afton in the center of Yardley Boro. Run by the Yardley Historical Association, the Library will be [...]