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Our Macomb County MI area has been in the midst of this real estate
downturn for several years now, and I thought it would be interesting
to see how this past September home sales compared to the previous
Septembers (2007 and 2008).
While we aren’t seeing home prices stabilizing as of yet, we are
seeing fewer homes come on the [...]

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I think home sellers will find the news much more valuable now than ever
before.  If a home seller has balked at accepting an offer on their home from
a buyer who is using an FHA or VA mortgage they should pause and look
at this chart:

Over 1/2 of homes that sold during the month of June (2009) [...]

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There is so much misconception out here in Macomb County about how next to impossible it is to sella condo, especially one that isn’t a
foreclosure or a short sale.  Today I’d like to talk about a condo in
Sterling Heights that sold yesterday that wasn’t a foreclosure (or a short sale) but was lovingly maintained by [...]

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Around this time last year (I remember because it was cold and snowy - again!) I wrote an article about a home seller in our area (Chesterfield Township) who had success because of the things that they did correctly:
They priced their home to compete with the bank owned homes that were cropping up in their [...]

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Contrary to all the doomsday talk about home sales in Macomb County and across the state of Michigan, homes that are owned privately are selling.
Let me state this clearly:  Not all home sales in our area are foreclosure sales.
During the last month (December 2008) 208 homes that were privately owned sold.    Out of those [...]

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Last year around this time I wrote the following article and published it at my other blogsite. As I was thinking about the real estate market this morning the article came to mind once again. The advice directed towards home sellers in Macomb County hold even more true today.

What do you mean by “I [...]

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