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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 the buyers about [...]

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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 homes [...]

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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 taking [...]

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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 average [...]

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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 on [...]

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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 about [...]

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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 interested [...]

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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.  That [...]

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Wow.  Once again we have some major mortgage changes coming and until things are settled (by HUD and FHA) it could become very confusing for home buyers, and will most certainly affect the Macomb County area as well as the rest of the state.
One website that I am thrilled about is called Mortgage Myth Busters.   [...]

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When my hubby and I purchased our home 13 years ago we both wanted a big lot.  (Larger than the norm in subdivisions.  A typical lot in our sub in Macomb County is 50 X 110.)  We didn’t buy acreage, but our home does sit on a double width lot.  It was nice the first [...]

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