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Losing $$$ by Renting Wilmington NC Real Estate Hi I'm Jay Seville the team leader for the JustNewListings.com team and I write for Wilmington-real-estate.com as well.. I live full-time in Wilmington North Carolina I also have a team operating in northern Virginia and Washington DC have negotiated about $50 million of real estate contracts over the last 12 years, and I want to go into a subject that is near and dear to my heart particularly after working with some client who just closed on a ... Read Full Post

Latest and Greatest on Landfall Real Estate in Wilmington Spring 2012 So I started a youtube channel for a higher end neighborhood in my new market of Wilmington NC. After selling in Northern Virginia and Washington DC for 11 years I had become very cozy with $300-600,000 transactions as the norm $$$. I find myself in Wilmington now showing $150-200,000 homes mostly. It's brutal. The solution is get noticed for buyers looking for high end neighborhoods and google adwords. While it's pretty pa... Read Full Post

Slidesharing into the Landfall Home base--"safe!" About a month ago I read a social media/seo piece on slideshare--here is one similar. Slideshare essentially lets you post powerpoint presentations online as well as embed them like you would a youtube video. Sharing is allowed, etc. The beauty of it is that google indexes the text and you can have some outbound text links in it as well as embed youtube videos within it, etc. So slideshares can be totally optimized...and google loves including... Read Full Post

The Affordable Gem of North Carolina--Kure Beach, NC I'm blown away regularly by the great value of Kure Beach homes for sale. In my previous market where my team still operates and I generate business there to hand off such as Virginia foreclosures, one could buy a $380,000 1 bedroom Clarendon condo facing the wall of another condo. The selling point was location of course and being in an urban village where you can walk to everything. But for the same price you can get oceanfront condos wit... Read Full Post

Finally Wilmington NC real estate and Wrightsville Beach added to JNL It's been a couple of years in the making really with a ton of variables and life to contend with. 6 little kiddos makes it that much more distracting to pull off. But I'm happy to announce that a new IDX market has been added to my main website JustNewListings.com after which JustNewListings.com Realty, Inc. is named. With another IDX custom work needs to be done and is underway. But some landing pages are up and running a... Read Full Post

Surreal Skyrocketing of Landfall Real Estate Sales With 21 sold homes in the Landfall neighborhood 28405 of Wilmington North Carolina one wonders what is happening to the local real estate market. That is 370% more sales than 15 months ago and going back further the difference is even more extreme. Those who have read this Landfall homes category of my REW blog know that the market is strong and on its way up. The best time to buy there was a good year ago. Wait another year and you'll be sor... Read Full Post

Reviewing April Real Estate Listings at Wrightsville Beach NC We are in the spring market of Wrightsville Beach NC. This is when new homes for sale are listing most frequently. So let's take a look at the past 2 weeks and see what we can learn from the listings. For this exercise I'll examine single family homes. A sidenote that is interesting is that on the WRAR -- local Wilmington NC area MLS--single family homes are referred to as stick built modular. I have no idea how they made something... Read Full Post

The Pursuit for Rankings on the Porters Neck Homes page My closest colleagues across the country know I'm headed into new territory to open up an office in Wilmington NC adding a 2nd REW IDX to my main website JustNewListings.com. But with that I've started a couple of new wordpress sites from scratch--one of the reasons to force myself to learn to work the WP potential that can be applied to a multitude of goals either commercial, personal or for activism, etc. I did a little test and adding... Read Full Post

So how much does "sought after" cost-- Hoggard High School and Parsley Elementary In any Wilmington real estate market you are going to have sought after school districts when viewing homes for sale. Sometimes it's out in the open and even in the MLS remarks, "sought after." Other times it's locally known and somewhat unspoken but it's there regardless. Everybody knows what the more prized school districts are. Wilmington NC High Schools--Hoggard High School vs Ashley High In the high school ... Read Full Post

Setting your Expectations for Wrightsville Beach Condos For several years North Carolina has been the top retirement destination for baby boomers along with South Carolina. It's like Florida is no longer cool anymore and much of it is overrun with big box retail centers or overcrowded. "In fact, South and North Carolina now top the preferences of baby boomers who will be retiring in the next decade, according to a recent survey from homebuilder Del Webb." (source: TopRetirements.com and on ot... Read Full Post