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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
We are definitely in the dog days of summer, here in Bucks County.
I just got back from a very nice, long weekend in Chicago.
For today’s post, lets look at a couple of charts that show inventory and average days on the market for homes in Yardley and Newtown.
What do the charts show?
Basically, in both Newtown [...]
Well, it is hard to believe that it is May 1st!
We have officially reached the end of the real estate tax credit.
I am happy to report, that April was one of the busiest months that I have had, in a long time.
It was an extremely productive month, with many transactions, listings, and new prospects to [...]
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 [...]
Many buyers that I work with, when searching for homes in Yardley, Newtown, and all over Bucks County, eventually run into a house that they want to see, and we find out that the house is being sold as a, “short sale“.
For those not familiar with what a short sale is, a short sale basically [...]
I write this post from my home in Yardley, Pa, Bucks County, waiting for the arrival of the third major snow storm of the season. I came across this wonderful video, that details the top ten home repair tips, for home owners in Yardley, Newtown and all over Bucks County. Hope that you find this [...]
Continue Reading >On my last post, I took a detailed look at what happend in 2009 in Lower Makefield Township real estate market.
Today, we are going to check out the results from 2009, in Upper Makefield Township real estate market.
Here is what the real estate market looked like, as we finished 2009, in Upper Makefield Township.
Inventory in [...]
I represented a seller on a house that closed in Lower Makefield Township, recently, that was heated with oil, and had a tank burried in the ground.
I advised the seller, over a year ago, to have the tank removed, prior to listing the house.
If you are not familiar with the possible complications of having an [...]