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There are a lot of homes on the market in Northwest Arkansas and around the country. Depending on the area and price of your home, you may be competing with ten, fifty, even hundreds of other properties. Here are easy staging tips to help you differentiate your property and make it stand out in a buyer's mind.
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While home staging can be a lot of work, it benefits far out weigh the costs in most situations. If you need justification to spend the time and effort here you go:
If you would like additional staging tips by email or a list of reputable staging companies in Northwest Arkansas please contact me for more information. Are there some off-the-wall staging tips that you would like to share? Please leave a comment below.
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I woke up to ice falling down and hurried outside to cover my flowers that had popped up in the last few weeks. Then the ice began to turn to snow. It is beautiful to say the least.... Might be our last snow this year! ENJOY!!!
"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, SNOW is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." - John Ruskin
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Much happened in January, a presidential inauguration, a tough economy, a slow realization by the American public that we’re not quite out of the woods yet. As the coldest of winter slides behind us so to does the worst of housing crisis, or so we hope. Foreclosures made up a fair percentage of property sales in January as evidenced by the numbers. Below is the January 2009 Northwest Arkansas home prices and market report from EXITrealestate540.com, Bon Appetito.

There are currently some 5500 homes listed for sale in northwest Arkansas with an average Days on Market of 176. It looks like 208 properties sold in the month of January and 277 went pending. The fact that the number of homes pending is higher by a third than the number of homes sold is a good sign that there is some additional buying activity going on. The average sale price for all of Washington and Benton Counties combined was $162,050 at an average sale price per foot of $84.40. That’s a far cry from the list price of $109.98 of the properties currently for sale. This may mean that many of the home sales have been lower end properties and foreclosed or distressed homes.

Please notice the Avg SP (Average Sale Price) of each town in Northwest Arkansas. For January, Fayetteville is the winner with an average sale price of $222,538 out of it’s 27 sold properties. Springdale is on the low end this month with it’s average sale price of $140,938 on it’s 43 sold properties.
Notice the average DOM for current properties is lowest in Springdale at 153 days and highest in Rogers at 181 days. It looks like a saleable listing will take, on average, some where on the order of six months to sell in today’s market.
Compare these numbers with those of other months in 2008 and 2009 in our market conditions category.
If you are curious what your Northwest Arkansas property is worth, contact me for a complete neighborhood analysis and accurate home evaluation.
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Who says Northwest Arkansas real estate isn’t hopping? Virginia’s Grove Subdivision is one busy, bustling place.
With room for less than 25 homes, Virginia’s Grove is already half-way built out with 13 houses on the ground. Located just south of highway 72 (central) in Bentonville, Virginia’s Grove is close to Wal-mart Home Office, Interstate 540, and many of Bentonville and Rogers’ restaurants and shopping areas. Check out the map below.

Homes in Virginia’s Grove range in price from $185,900 for a 3 bed 2 bath with 1850 square feet up to $219,900 for a 4 bed 2 bath home at 2200 square feet. There are also floorplans with 3 beds 2 baths and a bonus room with 2367 square feet. These homes are price at between around $93/foot up to $104/foot, great deals with land prices in the middle of Bentonville being what they are.
The lots are low-maintenance, perfect for the busy homeowner that doesn’t have time to mow a large yard.

The neighborhood does have covenants that limit the size of storage building and does not allow for permanent placement of pools on the properties. A POA will be formed if the residents decide to create one.
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This is just a short list of the quality techniques and materials that Roth Custom Homes uses in the construction of homes in Virginia’s Grove. Below is a sample floorplan and pictures of just some of what you can expect in Virginia’s Grove.





That’s just a little taste of what is available in Viriginia’s Grove in Bentonville right now. Contact me to get the latest information on listings in Virginia’s grove or schedule a showing. The subdivision has an agent on duty to answer your questions every weekend so stop by and see what the great subdivision in Bentonville has to offer.
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Our president and CEO of the real estate company I work for shared a very important e-mail with us a couple of days ago.
It was a Urgent Call to Action for us to get involved! It is not often that we have a chance to influence legislation as he stated. This amendment would have a positive impact on our business and boy do we need that. There is a provision for the Federal Government to buy-down mortgage rates to 4.5% or less for a 30-year fixed rate loan for the purchase of a primary residence.
This would allow thousands of new buyers to be able to afford housing which would boost our economy. He also encourged us to call and voice your support of Amendment #353 to the Economic Stimulus Plan and state why you think a mortgage buy-down will help stimulate housing sales in your community and the impact it will have on the local economy.
I agree with him. We as Realtors can have a positive impact on our economy and help our current and future clients. What a great way to show our support!
All you have to do is look up contact information for your U.S. Senators listed by state with their Washington D.C. office contact information.
Here below is Senator Ensign's information. Provide them with your name and company information including your location, # of sales associates and offices you have and the # of real estate transactions your company had last year. Also state why your in support of Amendment #353. Make sure you leave a message if you get a voice mail.
Just thought I would share because the more realtors that get involved the better impact we can have!
Let's show them our support!
VOTE AMENDMENT #353
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Ensign, John - (R - NV) |
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119 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 |
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