Yesterday I spent most of my day doing what I find most enjoyable about my job. Spending a day in the coutry side with two very interesting clients and just looking at the Franklin area estate homes over $1,500,000.

My clients were looking for a recreational retreat to entertain friends and family as they felt there current home was a potential diaster zone with millions of dollars worth of antiques and expense wall treatments...not the place to have all the kids running around and enjoying themselves!

As a result, they picked the Nashville area as the buyers have had some history here, and have always enjoyed the temperate climate as well as the proximity to their home in Texas.

One of the criteria they had was for the home to be set on a minimum of…

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Showings Are Up

There has been so much negative talk in the recent months about the collapse of the real estate market and the bubble bursting that as a member of the public you had to have some concerns as to wether you should even be thinking about looking at real estate! Well it seems in the past 3-4 weeks that the home buyers have decided to brave the real estate world and start looking on line for homes.

In Nashville Tennessee, my sites are linked into the MLS data base and as such are used regularly by buyers looking to examine the market and see what is available. I have noticed a definate upswing in the number of people registering to search on the site and also the subsequent inquiries about homes which the leads to actual showings.

The agents…

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The Down Market Brings More Than Prices Down

I've been a realtor since March of 2001, and like any business that involves people, I have come in to contact with realtors of all shapes, sizes, backgrounds, intelligence, nationality...basically the whole range of types and personalities.

Nashville really hasn't seen a collapse in the real estate market but the demand has been reduced from the sellers market of 2005-2006. Agents that had only been in the business for a few months were introduced to a world of multiple offers and the ability to work hard and make a good living. Now that environment has changed and so its seems have the ethics of some of the people involved in the Nashville real estate business.

I have managed to secure the exclusive rights…

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Real Estate Connections

I've in real estate for 7 years now and have managed to grow the business to a point where my agents are dealing with the clients that we generate probably more so than me. As the use of the internet has grown in real estate I've tried to adapt my business to meet the demands of home buyers by developing sites like www.NashvilleBuyers.com and www.NashvillesMLS.com

However, I'm still very active in the real estate world, and have clients that are just as interesting and diverse as when I first started.

Mike Reinfeldt is perhaps one of the most publicly well known clients that I have. Mike is the GM for the Tennessee Titans and he became a client when he was offered the position of GM at Tennessee by the owner Bud Adams.

Ron…

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Politics and Real estate

For a long time now it has been recognized that political elections are decided by a small group of voters who are generally undecided on who they will vote for in the elections. There are the other voters that will always vote for their party and will not stray from historical alliances and these make up the core of the votes cast for each party. The ones that help push the winning party over the finish line are the floating voters who could vote for either party...or neither.

 

The Floating Real Estate Buyer

Real estate, and the cycle of buyers markets and sellers markets, has a very similar analogy. The term "floating" in the real estate sense refers to the home buyer that does not have to move. They maybe considering moving…

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The Ashton Real Estate Group of RE/MAX Elite and SunTrust Bank

Since I started in real estate sales in March 2001, when I passed the state real estate exam, I have worked very closely with one of the countries top loan officers, Lottie McCormick.

Lottie has managed to help and guide me through the most basic of questions regarding the mortage process as well as trying to explain to me the extremely complex workings of the mortage industry!

Part of the success of the growth of The Ashton Real Estate Group with RE/MAX Elite can be attributable to working with only the best real estate partners. Now, Lottie Mcormick and the Suntrust/Home Financial Group and the Ashton Real Estate Group have joined forces to offer the most competitive mortgage products to…

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Nashville Tennessee Real Estate Statistics

December 2007 Figures

According to figures just released by the Greater Nashville Association of Realtors® there were 2,109 home closings recorded for the month of December 2007. This in real terms shows a reduction of 32 percent from the 3,109 closings recorded for December 2006.

The number of fourth-quarter closings for 2007 for the Greater Nashville area was 6,856. This figure is actually a reduction  of 26% compared to the 9,307 closings recorded for the fourth quarter in 2006.

 

The total number of closings for 2007 in the Greater Nashville area was 34,221. This is down 14.5 percent when compared to the 40,056 closings recorded in 2006. 

"Ending the year as the fourth-best year on record is very…

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January 7, 2008 (Franklin, TN)-   The Williamson County Association of REALTORS® today announces the sale of homes statistics for Williamson County, Tn. for the month of December 2007. There were 305 residential and condominium closings reported for the month of December, according to figures provided by RealTracs Solutions, the multiple listing service used by REALTORS® in the Middle-Tennessee area.   Compared to December of 2006, the single family residential closings decreased 30 percent and the median price decreased by 2 percent. Compared to 2005, the median home prices have increased by 20 percent. Condominiums closings have increased by 2 percent and the median price increased by 5 percent. Compared to 2005, the median price for condominiums… Read Full Post