Birmingham, MI

The following is a monthly market analysis for Birmingham Michigan Real Estate. It compares only residential homes sold in April 2009 with March 2009 to determine the # of homes sold for the month and the increase or decrease in median sold price. It shows all homes sold then private owned vs. Bank Owned/HUD. In the latter part of 2008, Realtors were required to categorize ownership status so figures are not accurate for bank owned in earlier months and not calculated. Birmingham Market Analysis of Homes Sold also compares year ending April 2008 to April 2009. To exclude leases in data, minimum sale price used was $15,000.

Market Analysis For Birmingham MI April 2009

Active & Solds April 2009

Active & Solds March 2009

Active & Solds April 2008

May 1, 2007 – April 30, 2008

May 1, 2008 – April 30, 2009

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Market Analysis for Birmingham March 2009

Market Analysis for Birmingham February 2009

Birmingham Michigan January 2009 Market Analysis

Oakland County Market Analysis for March 2009

Oakland County Market Analysis for February 2009

Oakland County Market Analysis for January 2009

Birmingham Realtor selling Real Estate in Southeastern Michigan. TishHouse sells Houses - selling Oakland County Real Estate with RE/MAX Showcase Homes in Birmingham, Michigan. Helping People in a challenging market by specializing in Short Sales. See what my clients have to say about my extraordinary customer service. Follow me on Twitter.

Time for The Friday Roll Call!!!! Let's get positive!!

I am dedicating another post just to allow all of us the opportunity to read a positive story or two. I will start!!:

1. Have two closings set for next week.

2. Taught a great Short Sale class to some new agents.

3. I am leaving today to go to Manhattan with my wife, three girls (ages:3, 6, and 7). Will be stay at E78th and 2nd.

***If any of you NYC’ers out their have suggestions for where to go, places to eat and what to see, please add them to this post. ***

4. Had my 9th year wedding anniversary with my wife.

5. My Team Leader, Katherine picked up two buyers. Very proud of her, she is really working hard!

*** Life is a Gift given from G-d. What you do with it is our gift back him/her!***

This was a good week

Mike S

Mike Sher, (248) 548-9100 x127 shortsale@mikerealtor.com

CDPE (Certified Distress Property Expert) MCAR, Short Sale Trainer Max Brook and Real Estate One Short Sale Specialist. The Mike Realtor Team Blog - Metro Detroit/Oakland County Servicing in Southeast Oakland County, Birmingham, Bloomfield, Berkley, Beverly Hills, Clawson, Ferndale, Huntington Woods, Pleasant Ridge, Royal Oak, Rochester, Troy, etc.

One of the best purchases I have made in 2009 was a PDF editor. I use Nuance® PDF Converter Professional 5. It has been “the cats meow!!” I am able to take PDFs from the bank, add my client’s information, put in signature tags or highlight relevant passages and forward them by email to my clients. Plus I able to add my electronic signature to save from printing out the document, signing and rescanning it.

The best has been with my Hardship Packages. This has been a real time saver. I am able to attach the PA, all the documents for the short sale. Plus comps and statistics into one PDF. I can also add a header to each page with my contact info, the borrowers name, loan number and page number. If you have Efax or an equivalent product the world becomes even brighter. With my faxes coming in and going out from my PC, I can save paper and able to edit faxes (i.e. take out the unnecessary documents from a fax and just send out what is pertinent). I can do all of this with out printing a page.

All of these tools cut at least one to two weeks off my short sale approvals and hours off of the time for me to rescan documents.

Check it out, you’ll thank me.

Need more information, call me !

Mike Sher,

Office: (248) 644-4700x242 Fax :(248) 499-1020 Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302 E-mail: mike@mikerealtor.com

CDPE (Certified Distress Property Expert)

MCAR, Short Sale Trainer

Max Brook and Real Estate One Short Sale Specialist.

The Mike Realtor Team Blog - Metro Detroit/Oakland County

Servicing in Southeast Oakland County, Auburn Hills, Birmingham, Bloomfield, Berkley, Beverly Hills, Canton, Clawson, Farmington Hills, Ferndale, Huntington Woods, Northville, Novi, Pleasant Ridge, Plymouth, Royal Oak, Rochester Hills, West Bloomfield, Troy, etc. We worked with: Bank of America, Country Wide, HSBC, EverHome, Litton, GMAC, Chase, Wells Fargo, Flagstar, Fifth Third, Charter One, Comerica, Am Trust, US Bank, National City

But, We Can Help!

This is a competitive real estate market. If you have to sell and can not, perhaps it is time to look at a Short Sale. The Mike Realtor Team has performed dozens of Short Sales for professionals who have lost their job, income has declined, medical problems, relocation, retirement, divorce, loss of spouse, unable to make ends meet, or other reasons not listed.

I have taught hundreds of agents how I do short sales. I have negotiated 40+ short pay offs for my clients and yet, I know a fraction that is out their.

I just got back from a CDPE (Certified Distress Property Expert) class. It was awesome!! I took away so much information, good ideas and perspective to last me a long time.

So, take a class in Short Sales soon. If you have already taken one, take another. I have gone to a dozen and I'm still hungry for more!! Google short sale classes in your city or state. Call your local board or ask your broker to find a class. Go out side of your brokerage and talk to other realtors that are doing short sales. Find out how they keep up with the information.

If you are a Michigan Realtor, I am teaching a class for Max Broock Realtors on April 29^th 9am-12:00 Noon at the Bloomfield Twp Library.

"To be smart, you need to stay smart", Mike Sher

My wife, who is in medicine, needs 150 hours of continuing education credits. Plus she attends tons of pharmacology lectures to learn about new medicines and those have no credits. My father, a CPA, also is required to keep up to date with tax codes. So should my attorney, stock broker and so on.

We, realtors, need to keep up to date as well. Find a class today.

Need more information, call me !

Mike Sher,

Office: (248) 644-4700x242 Fax :(248) 499-1020 Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302 E-mail: mike@mikerealtor.com

CDPE (Certified Distress Property Expert)

MCAR, Short Sale Trainer

Max Brook and Real Estate One Short Sale Specialist.

The Mike Realtor Team Blog - Metro Detroit/Oakland County

Servicing in Southeast Oakland County, Auburn Hills, Birmingham, Bloomfield, Berkley, Beverly Hills, Canton, Clawson, Farmington Hills, Ferndale, Huntington Woods, Northville, Novi, Pleasant Ridge, Plymouth, Royal Oak, Rochester Hills, West Bloomfield, Troy, etc. We worked with: Bank of America, Country Wide, HSBC, EverHome, Litton, GMAC, Chase, Wells Fargo, Flagstar, Fifth Third, Charter One, Comerica, Am Trust, US Bank, National City

But, We Can Help!

This is a competitive real estate market. If you have to sell and can not, perhaps it is time to look at a Short Sale. The Mike Realtor Team has performed dozens of Short Sales for professionals who have lost their job, income has declined, medical problems, relocation, retirement, divorce, loss of spouse, unable to make ends meet, or other reasons not listed.

The following is a monthly market analysis for Birmingham Michigan.  It compares only residential homes sold in March 2009 with Feb. 2009 to determine the # of homes sold for the month and the increase or decrease in median sold price.  It shows all homes sold then private owned vs. Bank Owned/HUD.  In the latter part of 2008, Realtors were required to categorize ownership status so figures are not accurate for bank owned in earlier months and not calculated.   Birmingham Market Analysis also compares first quarter 09 to 08 and year ending March 2008 to March 2009.  To exclude leases in data, minimum sale price used was $25,000.

Market Analysis

Active & Solds March 2009

Active & Solds February 2009

Active & Solds March 2008

First Quarter ending March 31, 2009

First Quarter ending March 31, 2008

April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008

April 1, 2008 - March 31, 2009

If you are looking to Purchase a Home, click here for an IDX Home Search

If you are looking to Sell a Home, click here for an outline of our Marketing Strategy

Market Analysis for Birmingham February 2009

Birmingham Michigan January 2009 Market Analysis

Oakland County Market Analysis for March 2009

Oakland County Market Analysis for February 2009

Oakland County Market Analysis for January 2009

Birmingham Realtor selling Real Estate in Southeastern Michigan.  TishHouse sells Houses - selling Oakland County Real Estate with RE/MAX Showcase Homes in Birmingham, Michigan. Helping People in a challenging market by specializing in Short Sales. See what my clients have to say about my extraordinary customer service.  Follow me on Twitter.