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What is my Home Worth? What did my neighbors home sell for? Is it enough to just find your Maryland Homes Value? Or do you need all active and recent home sales information, to really get the whole picture.
We are experiencing an ever changing market, so when it comes to real estate values knowing the current trends in your area is essential to accuracy. For example, property values in you neighborhood are dropping at 2% a month, your home is worth $300,000 today, but average time on the market is 121 days. So do you price your home at todays value or 2-8% below? The truth is it really depends on your motivation and ultimate goal, which is an entire article in itself. The point is home value is more than just a number when it comes to selling your home.
Trends are different from county to county,town to town and neighborhood to neighborhood. So what is happening in your neighborhood today and what can you expect in the coming months and year. Keep on top of the home market with MarketSnapshot. You can be kept udated monthly, bi-monthly, or every other month or never again you choose.
What is MarketSnapshot? The most complete information in reference to home market value and trends available today Including Community Info such as police, college, fitness,church, shopping and transportation. School information with links to each school websites, aerial views, contact information and proximity to home. Home value, active homes for sale, sold homes, days on market, list to sales price and detailed property information.
So, what is my home worth, is an excellent question, but the answer is not so simple. To determine accurate home values especially in a changing market you will need more than a number. All of that information can be found at Home Market Values For FREE, So c1ick on the blue link and enjoy.
How Can A Realtor, Home Buyer and Home Seller Learn From The NFL?
In the NFL players talk trash all week prior to the game, they play physical and all out for 60 minutes and at the end of the game, shake hands. No matter who wins or loses when the game is over friends are friends again, old college team mates are reunited and many times opposing players kneel at the center of the field and pray together.
Why would I compare the NFL to real estate? I have just had a settlement where I represented a first time home buyer and a REALTOR friend and old business partner of mine with a competing company represented the home seller. It was just like an NFL game without the physical contact of course, but there was trash talking, going up and down the field with negotiations, the ball constantly changing hands.
I have been in real estate for 24 years and settled hundreds of transactions and as I left this one, it hit me that it was perfect. Not that there were not issues like home inspection repairs and under appraisal, it was perfect in the way that every one handled themselves perfectly during the transaction and afterward.
From the moment the offer was submitted, as an insider or outsider, would not have known that the real estateagents knew each other, much less were friends. There was no small talk, it was all about the fiduciary responsibilities, I being advocate for the first time home buyer and she the home seller.
There were normal negotiations like the initial offer price and terms going back and forth a few times and the homeinspection repairs, similar counter offering. Then there was the not so normal under appraisal and the difficulties associated with working through it. It all worked out, not because of the REALTORS, but the home buyer and home seller were fair and reasonable, each making acceptable compromises.
There is one major difference with the NFL and a real estate transaction. In the NFL one team must win and one mustloose, in a real estate transaction all parties must win. This is best described in a quote that I live by, author Napolean Hill from the book “Think and Grow Rich”.
“I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure unless built upon truth and justice. Therefore I will engage inno transaction that does not benefit all whom it affects.”
A real estate settlement should be a pleasant experience. At the end of every real estate transaction there should behandshakes, laughter and hugs, if not, everyone loses.
