TheBlogDog.net: August 2010

Introducing m.lynsims.net!

Now your real estate search and favorite properties can go wherever you and your phone go!

(Click on 'The Who' and hear the original 'Goin' Mobile')
 
THE MAGNIFICIENT 7 FEATURES OF MY NEW MOBILE SEARCH ~~~
 

1. Search the full MLS anywhere anytime including access to property details. Registered members, like yourself, can see all available listings in the MLS.
2. Access your saved searches and favorites from your mobile device. Unlike most mobile real estate searches on the market today, you can save your searches and your favorite properties.
3. There is no learning curve. The mobile process is completely intuitive. You can search and save just like you do on your computer.
4. My mobile search works with all types of phones that allow you to browse the internet, including iPhone, Blackberry, Android and Nokia.
5. I have my own mobile page. This allows me to deliver customized promotions on your properties through a variety of media to attract the maximum number of buyers.
6. Every listing has its own unique listing page, which allows our network to promote your listing (for my sellers) with an individual mobile page address that can be listed in ads, for sale sign riders and other media. This makes it easy for e-buyers to see full property details from their phone and to set up appointments with an agent!
7. With all the information the public can see on their cell phone, my mobile search is a virtual brochure at your fingertips. One that goes wherever you and your phone go and it's paperless too!

Yeeeeaaaaahhhh baby!  Let's go!

Buying a Home on a Fast Timeline
Buy a Fixer Upper or Move in Ready Home?
10 Best Buyer Behavior Practices
What's a Buyers Agent?
What Lyn can help you do!
 

Introducing m.lynsims.net!

Now your real estate search and favorite properties can go wherever you and your phone go!

(Click on 'The Who' and hear the original 'Goin' Mobile')
 
THE MAGNIFICIENT 7 FEATURES OF MY NEW MOBILE SEARCH ~~~
 

1. Search the full MLS anywhere anytime including access to property details. Registered members, like yourself, can see all available listings in the MLS.
2. Access your saved searches and favorites from your mobile device. Unlike most mobile real estate searches on the market today, you can save your searches and your favorite properties.
3. There is no learning curve. The mobile process is completely intuitive. You can search and save just like you do on your computer.
4. My mobile search works with all types of phones that allow you to browse the internet, including iPhone, Blackberry, Android and Nokia.
5. I have my own mobile page. This allows me to deliver customized promotions on your properties through a variety of media to attract the maximum number of buyers.
6. Every listing has its own unique listing page, which allows our network to promote your listing (for my sellers) with an individual mobile page address that can be listed in ads, for sale sign riders and other media. This makes it easy for e-buyers to see full property details from their phone and to set up appointments with an agent!
7. With all the information the public can see on their cell phone, my mobile search is a virtual brochure at your fingertips. One that goes wherever you and your phone go and it's paperless too!

Yeeeeaaaaahhhh baby!  Let's go!

Buying a Home on a Fast Timeline
Buy a Fixer Upper or Move in Ready Home?
10 Best Buyer Behavior Practices
What's a Buyers Agent?
What Lyn can help you do!
 

Looking for a home in the South Elgin IL area?  

Check out what's available in South Elgin Homes now! Interest rates are at a 40 year low (check on right) so why not take advantage?

These are the current market numbers and availability for South Elgin Homes.  Lots of great home selections (126 total) with numerous choices below the $200,000 range and we've got great custom construction for price ranges above that.  The current average listing price for South Elgin Homes is $303,562.  Some 'handyman specials, foreclosures and fixer uppers' are available for buyers trying to get instant equity in the market by doing the work themselves!  Some start at just $59,900 so you better get movin'.

To search for homes currently available in the South Elgin IL area, please go directly to the home search page (below) to get started.  Other interesting articles and ideas for sellers or buyers are also available at my main website to make you market 'savvy' before you start your home adventure!  Check it out when you get a few minutes.

South Elgin Homes are located entirely in Kane County.

South Elgin Homes belong to 2 different grade school districts (Consolidated U46 and District 303) because of the unique boundaries.  I can provide you with lots of information about school districts and the schools themselves.

South Elgin IL website

Looking for a home in the Carol Stream IL area?  

Check out what's available in Carol Stream Homes now! Interest rates are at a 40 year low (check on right) so why not take advantage?

These are the current market numbers and availability for Carol Stream Homes.  Lots of great home selections (155 total) with a few choices below the $150,000 range and we've got great custom construction for price ranges above that.  The current average listing price for Carol Stream Homes is $266,893.  Some 'handyman specials, foreclosures and fixer uppers' are available for buyers trying to get instant equity in the market by doing the work themselves!  Some start at just $89,900 so you better get movin'.

To search for homes currently available in the Carol Stream IL area, please go directly to the home search page (below) to get started.  Other interesting articles and ideas for sellers or buyers are also available at my main website to make you market 'savvy' before you start your home adventure!  Check it out when you get a few minutes.

Carol Stream Homes are located entirely in DuPage County.

Carol Stream Homes belong to 3 different grade school districts because of the unique boundaries. The Consolidated U46, District 93 and Benjamin District 25 school districts.  I can provide you with lots of information about school districts and the schools themselves.

Looking for a home in the Elgin IL area?  

Check out what's available in Elgin Homes now! Interest rates are at a 40 year low (check on right) so why not take advantage?

These are the current market numbers and availability for Elgin Homes.  Lots of great home selections (873 total) with numerous choices below the $150,000 range and we've got great custom construction for price ranges above that up to 1.1 million!  The current average listing price for Elgin Homes is $240,348.  Some 'handyman specials, foreclosures and fixer uppers' are available for buyers trying to get instant equity in the market by doing the work themselves!  Some start at just $35,900 so you better get movin'.

To search for homes currently available in the Elgin IL area, please go directly to the home search page (below) to get started.  Other interesting articles and ideas for sellers or buyers are also available at my main website to make you market 'savvy' before you start your home adventure!  Check it out when you get a few minutes.

Elgin Homes are divided unequally between Cook (northeastern) and Kane Counties.

Elgin Homes belong to the Consolidated U46 & Burlington 301 school districts.  I can provide you with lots of information about school districts and the schools themselves.

Looking for a home in the Bartlett IL area?  

Check out what's available in Bartlett IL Homes now! Interest rates are at a 40 year low (check on right) so why not take advantage?

These are the current market numbers and availability for Bartlett IL Homes.  Lots of great home selections (279 total) with some below the $150,000 range and we've got great custom construction for price ranges above that!  The current average listing price for Bartlett IL Homes is $328,767.  Some 'handyman specials, foreclosures and fixer uppers' are available for buyers trying to get instant equity in the market by doing the work themselves!  Some start at just $124,500 so you better get movin'.

To search for homes currently available in the Bartlett IL area, please go directly to the home search page (below) to get started.  Other interesting articles and ideas for sellers or buyers are also available at my main website to make you market 'savvy' before you start your home adventure!  Check it out when you get a few minutes.

Bartlett IL Homes are divided unequally between Cook (northern) and DuPage Counties.

Bartlett IL Homes belong to the Consolidated U46 school district.  I can provide you with lots of information about school districts and the schools themselves.

Private School Information
Bartlett Community Overview

Looking for a home in the Streamwood IL area?  

Check out what's available in Streamwood IL Homes now!  Interest rates are at a 40 year low (check on right) so why not take advantage?

These are the current market numbers and availability for Streamwood IL Homes.  Lots of great home selections (218 total) with some below the $150,000 range and we've got great custom construction for price ranges above that!  The current average listing price for Streamwood IL Homes is $225,335.  Some 'handyman specials, foreclosures and fixer uppers' are available for buyers trying to get instant equity in the market by doing the work themselves!  Some start at just $79,900 so you better get movin'.

To search for homes currently available in the Streamwood IL area, please go directly to the home search page (below) to get started.  Other interesting articles and ideas for sellers or buyers are also available at my main website to make you market 'savvy' before you start your home adventure!  Check it out when you get a few minutes.

Streamwood IL Homes have two school districts - Consolidated U46 and District 54.  I can provide you with lots of information about school districts and the schools themselves.

Private School Information

Too many people are not making their financial decisions! They don't know who to trust or which way to go.  In order to move ahead in life and get 'unstuck' you must 'bite that bullet' and start to gather the information to help you make an informed decision.

This is a great post from a loan officer Deborah Garvin.  Start today.

This is the 'Months Supply of Inventory' for Streamwood IL Homes (single family only) from April 2007 to June 2010.

This is also called the 'Conversion Rate' or how long and how much inventory is on the market in that particular town.  Obviously, the higher the rate, the longer the market time for homes in that community.

Does your agent know the 'Conversion Rate' and will they share that information with you?  It shouldn't be kept a secret because it plays a pivotal role in how your home should be marketed.

Looking to sell your home and work with an area expert?  Let's work out a strategy to get your Streamwood IL Home sold!

Listing your home soon?  Here's a couple of things you should know about 'Price'.

There’s actually a few factors that are embroiled together – Price, condition, location.  Together all three will actually make your home either sell or be rejected by prospective buyers.

Obviously in this market and the elevated inventory for Bartlett IL Homes you have to be ‘dead on’ with your homes price.  Too high and no one will take your home seriously and it will be passed over.  Too low?  Well that really doesn’t happen too often except in distress sales, foreclosures and the like.  A fair price – what a seller is willing to accept and a buyer is willing to pay.  That’s what we normally strive for!

When an agent puts your home on the market, it has to be sold three times.

The first sale is to my peers, the other REALTORS® and buyers agents who are in the market everyday. They need to be excited about the price or they simply ignore the listing because it's often a waste of their time to show it to buyers who won't pay that price.

The second sale is to the buyer, and they compare your home to the others they're looking at in the marketplace comparing features and benefits that are important to them.

The third sale is to the appraiser at the buyers lender. Even if we're lucky enough to get a higher than market price from a buyer, the appraiser compares your home with past sales in the neighborhood and their appraisal usually hits right at the market price.  It's a system of checks and balances that we have in the market.  

If your home doesn't appraise, what will you do?  Let's put yourself in the buyers shoes for a moment - if you bought a home (or anything for that matter) and the appraisal came in lower than what you paid, what would you do?  How would you feel as a buyer?  Cheated?  Ripped off?  Taken advantage of?  What normally happens is the deal falls through and we begin the whole selling process all over again.  Start again at square one, we’re back on the market!

The attached graph shows the Median List Prices and the Median Sold Prices for Bartlett IL Homes.  An interesting feature is the difference between the List Prices and the Sales Prices when the market downturn began.  There was a definite 'disconnect' between what sellers wanted for their homes and what buyers were willing to pay.  As the market progressed (an unfortunate looking ski slope) to today, we see that the prices are starting to converge upon each other.  Does this mean that buyers and sellers have weathered the 'price chasm' together?  I think so.

Both buyers and sellers of Bartlett IL Homes are settling in with the market and taking advantage of the wonderfully low interest rates available.  All I can do is present to you the market as it is 'today'.  Present time, present moment.


Bartlett IL Homes  How many Short Sales are there really?
Search Bartlett Foreclosures
Northwest Suburbs Housing Market Report May 2010