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 [...]
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 >There was a really interesting article in the Wall Street Journal a couple of days ago, questioning whether home values are still falling. If you are curious about what is happening in the real estate market, check out this article at the following link, “Why Home Prices Are (and Aren’t) Stabilizing”
From a Bucks County perspective, [...]
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 [...]
For as long as I can remember, we have owned dogs.
We have had Goldens, Burmese Mountain Dogs, and currently have an American Eskimo, Quincy. We are very fortunate in the Yardley area to have a wonderful array of very qualified, and caring vets to choose from.
We have recently been dealing with very troubling, and confusin,g [...]
Cold weather is right around the corner! Did you know that the average Yardley home loses up to 30% of its heating and cooling energy through air leaks? The worst leaks tend to occur around windows and doors. To stop air leaks and prevent your home heating dollars from vanishing in the wind, it’s important [...]
Continue Reading >Here in Yardley – like everywhere else – it’s a fact that dogs chase kids, pans drop, chairs scrape…and soon you must repair wood floors and erase scratches that make them look a mess. Here are some great tips from houselogic.com’s Jane Hoback, who is a veteran business writer.
A professional floor refinisher will charge $1 [...]
Let’s look at the real estate market in Yardley, and see where we are, through September. This review also covers real estate in Lower Makefield Township. As I mention in virtually every real estate post for Yardley, or anywhere in Bucks County, real estate is a very local business. Please remember that, when you read [...]
Continue Reading >The towpath along the Delaware Canal is one of the Yardley area’s most interesting landmarks. The Delaware Canal is actually a 60-mile canal system, that was completed in 1832. It runs from Bristol to Easton.
According to the Friends of the Delaware Canal website, http://www.fodc.org, in the most productive years of canal use (just prior to [...]