Chat about Macomb County MI real estate & Homes for sale search site

The Detroit News has an article this morning about foreclosures and default filings in Macomb County and the Metro Detroit area, and the first thought that came to my mind was:   We’ve been seeing this for months now! Almost every buyer that I am working with has been running in to this problem:  There are [...]

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If you’ve been searching for the right home in Macomb County recently, then I’m sure you’ve seen the full range:  Foreclosures, short sales, and the even rarer “normal” homes for sale. I don’t believe I’ve had a first time home buyer client yet that hasn’t asked me “Am I rushing things?” when they are considering [...]

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I thoroughly enjoy reading about the real estate market in general, and often find myself nodding along to a point an author makes or wanting to add my 2 cents to the topic.    What I have learned over my 15 years in the real estate industry in the county I live in (Macomb County MI) [...]

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Shadow Inventory.  It’s a murky term, as the word “shadow” usually means something dark following us around.    When we hear it in a way that relates to our local real estate market, for example Macomb County and the Metro Detroit area, it means homes that are sitting vacant on our blocks and in our subdivisions [...]

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Several months ago I read an article written by another real estate agent (in another part of the country) about an incident she had while showing homes to a  young buyer couple. The house was empty (the sellers left for the showing) and the buyers looked at the home thoroughly, even though they really weren’t [...]

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So often lately I receive a phone call from either a past client, or someone that knows a past client and refers them to me. What is the first thing I do? I refer them to someone that I work with that knows what he is doing.  As I tell these callers:  Short sales are [...]

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I’ve heard it so often that I cringe each time I hear it from a potential home buyer: “So-and-so told me to never offer more than 50% of the list price” or some version of that sentence. My response? If the homes list price is double what the market value is, then by all means [...]

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Is it really April already?   I think this winter dragged on so long that the first few days of April kind of sneaked up on me! This morning I took a peek at the single family residential home sales that happened in the first quarter of this year in Macomb County and realized once again [...]

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I didn’t think it would happen during this time of the year (lousy weather, people not anxious to move in the winter, etc) but nothing should surprise me anymore. My buyer client sent me a list of 6 homes that she would like to view tomorrow, and when I pulled up the 6 homes only [...]

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(I wrote this article in 2008, and a recent email inquiry from a prospective foreclosure purchaser reminded me of it.  Not much has changed since 2008…) A phone call the other day illustrated to me once again how quickly our real estate market here in Macomb County is changing. The gentleman who called told me [...]

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