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Hello Buyer's to all of you out there>>>> I am a Realtor associate, E-Pro, and located in Spring Hill, Florida. I Have not seen prices this low since 2001, despite what the media talks about, house prices are the lowest in years and are selling. For an example I sold homes less the [Read More]

An agent in my Brooksville office is trying to set up showings of homes to a prospective buyer for tomorrow. One of the possibly promising listings indicates that in order to show there must be: 24 hour notice, only after 3 p.m.; list agent must be present...wow...that takes a lot of coordination. [Read More]

New rules that came into effect on May 1, 2009 are making financing, in some cases, impossible. Multiple complaints on inflated appraisals led NY Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo and mortgage giants, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to make a pact to lessen the impact on misguided appraisals.  The am [Read More]

Competing with foreclosures in Hernando County Florida. If you are attempting to sell your home in Hernando County Florida you knew very well what you were getting into when you decided to put your home on the market. But did you know that the density of foreclosures to population that Hernando C [Read More]

BANKS that are representing short sales seem to be saying that if they can’t fool everyone than they’ll just fool themselves; being as they have the wherewithal to do so. As just one example, we have a qualified buyer for a short sale where the bank is asking $145,000 and my qualified [Read More]

The Florida Association of Realtors (FAR) received $97,000 in grant money to develop local foreclosure prevention programs.  FAR plans on using the grant money for promoting a week that will focus on statewide homeownership.  The program is designed to help educate Florida homeowners on [Read More]

There are many people who share information that can, and do, help many others financially, personally, emotionally and physically. Doctors help us physically (we hope), while preachers, psychiatrists and our family and friends all help us emotionally and personally. As to those who help us financi [Read More]

Florida has had a bad "rap" due to the economy and real estate market. NOW is a GREAT time to buy in our beautiful Sunshine state. There are several great real estate deals for homes and vacant land. We are still the state of white sand beaches, some of which are dog friendly. Fresh water [Read More]

A still-hefty supply of foreclosed properties in Hernando, Pasco, Citrus, Hillsboro, and Pinellas Counties of Florida are keeping prices at rock bottom, and experts believe that will not change until at least the middle of 2010. Realtors and other market pundits point to the steady rise in transac [Read More]

According to the local news here in Hernando County, there are many more foreclosures to come on the market! The number of foreclosures rose to 1,675 through the end of June which lead to a 7% increase in sales compared to the same time last year. More than half the homes sold this year were forecl [Read More]