I was looking at our Metro Detroit market blog today, how boring. We are beating a dead horse in Detroit, all we have been blogging about are sales price increases. I guess when you are so fired up about something so unexpected you can't help but dwell on it.
Prices are up in Metro Detroit over 12% third quarter of 2010 vs. third quarter of 2009.
Why do you care if you live somewhere else? Because we were the first in and the hardest hit! We are coming back around, well off the lows on price and thinking we could continue a solid appretiation for while. Property is just so cheap, infratsructure is good, labor is relatively cheap, and shoot we have global warming on our side (did anyone see the blurb in Wired magazine?).
Agents in Detroit rock. They know how to move property and benefit buyers and sellers, they stopped the price reductions and started rocking value, it worked.
Check out our Detroit market blog, I promise to quit bragging about home prices! You will not believe some of the increases.
I have been getting ready for the end of the third quarter and running a lot of marketing reports this morning and have noticed a trend you don't here on the news.
Yes sales are down, a lot in some areas. But average sales prices are up, in some areas a lot. Not just up from last year but up from last quarter.
Flint Michigan sold home prices have risen four months in a row.
Not only are Oakland County Michigan (Northern Suburbs of Detroit) on a roll, 11% average price increase, but the high end is on fire...over 29 million dollar plus homes sold already this quarter, up from 21 all of Q3 2009.
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ChangingStreets.com has always prided itself on being a consumer focused company, and yesterday we found out our consumers appreciate it. ChangingStreets.com was voted the best real estate company in Genesee County by consumers and readers of mLive and the Flint Journal.
ChangingStreets.com web traffic grew 40% last month alone and now features homes for sale in Kalamazoo, Homes for sale in Flint, Homes for sale in Raleigh, Homes for sale in Oakland County and Homes for sale on Maui. ChangingStreets.com is also in discussions with groups in Florida, Texas and Southeastern Michigan to open additional operations to serve additional consumers.
Later this month ChangingStreets.com will debut its text system allowing consumers to text changingstreets.com on 95% of the homes listed in the states of Michigan, North Carolina and Maui. This will allow consumers to get information faster and connect with the best buyers agents in the business by text, a true win for home buyers.
For more information log onto www.ChangingStreets.com
I am a sucker for useless information, and the Forbes "Where Americans Are Moving" map is like a drug for me. I have been disecting some of my markets for the last 24 hours and here is what I have found:
Who is Moving to Oakland County Michigan
We all know people are leaving Flint Michigan, but where are they going?
Great stuff, please check out the blogs, then check our your town!
Amazing Torch Lake Home
There is little debating Torch Lake is one of the most beautiful lakes in the world. This home sits on one of the greatest spots on torch lake, a cove in the middle of the lake with a sandy bottom and no neighbors to the north for over a 1/2 mile. It is like your own private cove with caribbean blue water.
The house has a little going for it as well, 6 bedrooms (four with private baths), five and half baths, fabulous master suite with deck overlooking the cove, full walk out with wet bar, and huge family area, and fire pit.
I have had the pleasure of staying in this house and it lives perfect, a great modern house with room for everyone, with a cozy-up north feel. You feel like you should be relaxing, it is not hard!
The home has over 44oo square feet but lives much larger with the abundant deck and patio space. Three of the bedrooms (on every level of the photo to the right) not only open to a patio or deck they also have there own bathrooms complete with large showers and separate whirlpool tubs. There are three additional bedrooms on the top level, one with a private bath the others share a bath.
When building the home the builder took great care to pay tribute to one of the worlds most beautiful lakes. With tons of knotty pine, field-stone, hardwoods, the home truly feels indigenous to the cove it over looks. The colors mirror those found in the lake at different times in the day, the sand, the turquoise water and the sky are all represented in this fabulous home the current owners called "Spirit".
6 bedrooms
5.5 baths
4446 Square Feet
$1,200,000 For more information contact Andy Goggins, ChangingStreets.com 810.845.0300 or see the property Here!
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This is easier and cheaper than everyone thinks, how much of your "internet" strategy is online? Are you prepared to service online business? What does it cost you to do business in todays market? Are we talking online and acting offline?
These are problems many small to medium size brokers have. These are hard problems for brokers to see from the inside, we not only indentify problems we implement solutions. These solutions have been proven in the field at our own company. We started at company as a test facility in 2001 and have played with different models, training, and marketing spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to test or strategies. Learn from our mistakes and research. We are market proven, not too many coaches or consultants can say that!!!!
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I also have a serious distain for short sale and mortgage fraud and abuse...in my mind they go together like sushi and vodka.
I also have a problem with lazy agents...they want the seller to reduce the price, but they can't take a decent picture?
I love home buyers and sellers, they believe in us, they deserve the best we have to offer. If we can't do that we should go dig ditches.
I am also a huge supporter of RPAC and strongly believe in raising the qualifications for getting a real estate license.
I also have a big mouth, I say things to try and get people to think, not react.
I work everyday to develop new tools for home buyers, such as GreenText ChangingStreets.com propriatary home text feature were clients can get info on 95% of all homes listed in state we do business.
If you share the same dedication to client service and would like to be part of a growing group committed to making the real estate experience a better one contact us, we are rapidly expanding and opening new offices in states through out the south east and midwest. OUr new licensing agreement allows you to take the ChangingStreets.com brand for a test drive and see the benefits of a consumer-centric offering without upfront costs associated with a franchise. The best part is if it doesn't work out, it just doesn't work out! Odds are it will our brand generates fantastic opportunity for your clients and agents alike.
For more information on the ChangingStreets.com licensing and referral agreement contact Buddy@ChangingStreets.com or call Scott at 919.208.8368
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