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We’ve all come across those homes while house hunting that scream “Get me out of here“.  Whether it’s the clutter, the pet odors, the dirt that you don’t want to see anymore of or a combination of all of these things there is on occasion going be a home that you want to exit quickly. Thankfully there [...]

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I am doing a happy dance while sitting in my desk chair.  I just finished reading this article that was posted a bit ago at ABC online. What a win for the consumer! In a nutshell (read the article at the link provided above, you’ll be glad you did) a man in Pennsylvania wrote to [...]

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The common misconception about Buyers Agents is that we take people out to look at a few homes, write the offers, then sit back and collect a paycheck. Misconception?   What an understatement! Take for example what goes on behind the scenes before we ever step foot in a home with our buyer clients: Talk with [...]

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Finally back on track (and with some free time!) to analyze a bit more today the homes sold in Macomb County during the past year. Once again the north west part of the county, Macomb Township, showed me in black and white what I had been seeing with my buyer clients:  Stability. There were fewer [...]

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Continuing on with my beginning of the new years real estate market reports for Macomb County, this morning I am concentrating on Shelby Township: As I researched Shelby Township this morning I was pleasantly surprised that what I saw in black and white was actually what I thought I had been seeing as I was [...]

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Every New Year I enjoy going through both of the Multilist services that I am subscribed to and researching to see how the year past treated us as far as number of homes sold and average sales price. There were a couple of surprises that I liked to see, and one of them was the [...]

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This morning as I was researching a condo for sale in The Manors at Central Park in Shelby Township I found a nice surprise:  A blog written and updated regularly by Mike Grobbel who is a co-owner / member of the board of directors. I have to tell you, I am thrilled with the information [...]

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I can’t pinpoint the date it happened, but it seemed that overnight our multilist databases were becoming filled with local homes for sale (Macomb County MI) by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.  They seemed to have overtaken HUD homes for sale in the numbers of them on the market right now. A couple of notes [...]

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One of the features that I really find helpful in our MLS systems (Mirealsource™ and Realcomp II ™) is a listing history for each home on the market.   If a home has been on the market before (records going back to about 1997) there will be a history of it. When a buyer client is [...]

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This is one of those “just when I think I saw it all…” kind of posts. Last week I took buyer clients through a foreclosure (bank owned) home in north Macomb County.  The home has been on the market for quite a while, considering the low price for a large newer home in that area.  [...]

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