Expert Advice from Amy & Kyle Bergquist at Keller Williams Legacy Partners
Generally, I am not a superstitious person. I don’t bury St. Joseph statues in the yards of my listings (there will be a future blog on this), I don’t have a lucky pair of underwear that I wear to listing appointments, and I don’t read the horoscopes of my buyers to figure out if today is the day we’ll find them a house. However, there is one thing in real estate that I am overly
Labor Day unofficially marks the end of summer. Vacations are over for the most part. Kids are headed back to school. The drawbridge to the Cape is raised. Now is the perfect time to look back at the full spectrum of data for the spring real estate market in the Hartford area. Most people try to plan their moves between the months of May and August. This behavior follows the break in the school cycle,
This real estate market really has me scratching my head. In the past two days, I have been in two multiple offer situations with different buyers. In each case, my buyers “won,” but of course it was a stressful time for my clients and me. The first house was on the market for 3 days. The second house was on the market for 1 day. The houses were in different towns. We found two properties
A few of my buyers are complaining. They want to know why the houses we’re looking at are sad and why no new houses are coming on the market. Much of what’s available has been on the market for many weeks. We are in the doldrums of summer. People are away on vacation, many of the “fabulous” houses sold in the earlier spring and summer months, and sellers are now waiting until after Labor Day
Short sales are becoming more common these days, whether we like it or not. A short sale occurs when the sale of a property will not generate enough proceeds to cover what the seller owes their mortgage lender(s). Offers on short sale properties must be approved by the seller’s lender before they can be officially accepted. And when a short sale property is listed in the Multiple Listing Service, the agent must call out language