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This enchanting cottage of modest Greek Revival styling built in West Barnstable village 162 years ago is a piece of history reclaimed.
Once part of the Howland estate and later a post office, the cottage was refreshed and updated seven years ago by a doctor who owned it then.
Gaughan Companies continues to increase their downtown Minneapolis presence with the addition of Senior Associate, Jeff East to their Commercial Real Estate Brokerage office located at 100 South Fifth Street.
Jeffs area of expertise includes office and industrial leasing, sales, and new business development.
Real estate search site Trulia now has neighborhood data on crime, schools and other things that aren’t real estate but that homebuyers and prospective renters might like to know about before moving in.
The “Trulia Local” option — here’s Baltimore — offers up a map showing you where violent and non-violent crimes happened, where the schools are (and how parents have rated them) and where you can find restaurants, banks, gas stations and grocery stores. Oh yeah, and the homes for sale along with the recently sold stuff.
What do you think? Does the information look useful? Accurate?
What do you really want to know before you buy or rent?
Sales of existing homes in the Tucson market rose nearly 14 percent in 2011, with 13,418 sold, according to the latest figures from the Tucson Association of Realtors Multiple Listing Service.
But sales remain far below their peak of over 18,000 sold in 2005, and the average sales price declined by nearly $26,000, or about 14 percent, to $163,527 in 2011.
Median sale prices, which reduce the effect of the highest and lowest sale prices, were not available on an annual basis.
The median home price for December was $120,000, down from $139,500 in December 2010, the MLS reported.
The increase of about 1,600 home sales was the third straight year of higher sales and was the biggest jump yet since home sales fell precipitously from 2006 through 2008, MLS President Sue Cartun said.
In other findings, the MLS report said:
The total dollar volume of sales decreased slightly to $2.2 billion, even with increased units sold.
Total units listed fell by about 7 percent, to 29,719.
Average days on market, the time it took to sell a home, decreased to 82.
A brighter side exists amidst the data pointing to lower home prices across many areas of the country housing affordability is up, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) said in a recent report. On a year-over-year basis, 118 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in the U.S. experienced home price declines in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2011, the NAR said. Two metropolitan areas showed unchanged data, while 29 MSAs saw home prices rise on a yearly basis. In Q4 2011, the median existing-home (single-family) price was $163,500, which is a 4.2 percent decline from the $170,600 median seen in Q4 of 2010. The brighter side?
As a luxury real estate marketing professional you can distinguish yourself from the competition with a great slogan. The slogan is effective when you can distill in a few words the essence of your brand. How are you distinct from your competition?
In the highly competitive world of auto insurance, there are many slogans. One company is expressing its unique promise of value using this slogan: “Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.” Here is Mercury Auto Insurance’s slogan: “It takes more than a good neighbor to save you money!”
State Farm is promising neighborly personal service when you have a claim. That is nice. Isn’t that what