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Roswell Georgia offers buyers some of the best value for their money in North Fulton. The location makes it more reasonable to commute in to the city of Atlanta compared to northern sections of Alpharetta, Milton and Cumming and it isn't necessary to pay more for a home, but, like other areas of Atlanta and the rest of the real estate market, Roswell has seen modest price declines and a major reduction in sales volume. Below is an update on the market for Roswell. There are currently 752 home... Read Full Post

The sky has fallen on the real estate market. Banks are even afraid to foreclose on homes until the new administration tells them how they are going to bail them out. Prices are down nationally and almost on all local levels as well. But, not everything is all bad. It never is. I don't participate in spin, but, what I just said above isn't bad spin. It's just not the entire story. Here's the problem when we hear a news caption like this; it never tells the whole story. Let's look at a market ... Read Full Post

You've seen MLS photos shot with a wide angle lens like (like the ones below). It's probably a good photo, but, not in the form it gets uploaded to in the MLS. Typically, they get mashed (technical term) in from the left and the right until the picture looks stretched tall. Very bad image from a consumer perspective to say the least and wide angle photos really do make for better shots of rooms than a regular width photo. There is a simple way to avoid this, get your full width and not worry ... Read Full Post

Sunday, November 9th from 1-3 pm we will be holding our new listing open in Dunwoody located at 2834 Burnham Ct. This is an exciting new listing because not only do I believe that we have the home priced at a great value, but, because this is truly an exceptional home. classic by many Dunwoody standards, this home definitely has the nicest kitchen renovation I have ever seen at this price point. Just look at a couple photos: Beyond just the beautiful kitchen, there is a magnificent screend po... Read Full Post

OK, so it isn't conventional to think of this as a good sign, but, it is imperative that this trend continue if we are to get out of this slowdown anytime soon. We simply have too much inventory and fewer housing starts contributes to lowering inventory. The federal government reported today that housing starts are down about another 6% bringing it to 50 year lows. Here is an excerpt from the report: "Privately-owned housing starts in September were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 817... Read Full Post

For several months now, the FMLS has reported roughly 33% declines in the total number of home sales compared with the same time one year earlier. Condos have consistently performed even worse at something around 40% of a decline in sales volume, but, I'd like to take a look at this from a different perspective. We are so used to seeing the glass half full or half empty that we sometimes read market conditions through a colored lens that doesn't allow us to make honest and objective assessmen... Read Full Post

Deciphering boundaries between Alpharetta and Milton can be difficult to manage using the FMLS because too many agents still enter listings that are actually in Milton as "Alpharetta" because they don't understand (this is just my opinion) that there is a specific desire by consumers to search specifically for homes for sale in Milton vs. Alpharetta due to some of the inherent differences between the 2 cities. Complicating the statistics even farther is the very large number of unmapped prope... Read Full Post

The FMLS puts together statistical reports monthly from their data and this chart is something I meant to post about a week ago. Sorry to be a little late on the most recent numbers, but, here they are. This chart reflects closed sales over the past 6 years. It may illustrate the market better than just about anything I've done recently. I apologize that this isn't the fanciest chart you may have seen, but, I didn't make it. The point here is that for all of the pontificating about the market... Read Full Post

In a previous post, I talked about the how and why I think that good single property websites can help to market our listings. At that time, I had really just implemented them for all of my listings and wanted to get back to something that I said I would do about what some best practices might be for reusing them. Before I get that far, I do want to say that I can in fact say that it was one of the single property websites that sold a listing that we closed on this past week. The story, as re... Read Full Post

A $60 investment is all that is needed to make your listings shine. For the last year or so I have struggled with how to improve the photos that I take for my listings and to be honest, I always considered it one of my weaker points. Unfortunately, it's one of, if not the most important aspect in marketing a listing. After all, no matter how many eyeballs you get to view a home online, if the photos are terrible or even average, it's difficult to get a buyer excited about the home. I went thr... Read Full Post