Scott Williams Defiance, OH

It's been a little bit of a battle for us to get our home search tool up and running on our website, but it is finally there. It's a powerful tool in the hand of any person who is looking to purchase or even sell a home. With it a person can look at all the homes in Northwest Ohio that are listed by any agency who uses the Toledo Multiple Listing Service (That's litterally thousands of homes at your fingertips). The homes can be saved in a file then the person can receive emails when there are changes to the house and when other houses match their search criteria. This is helpful for both buyers and sellers. Buyers benefit for the obvious reasons for searching for homes, but sellers can get an idea of homes on the market and what is happening with homes that are comparible to theirs.

There are several search options available including map searches and address searches.

Go ahead and spend some time on the site and see what you can find. I think you'll be impressed with our search tool and will quickly appreciate it.

Thanks,

scott

I thought you'd like to know. I was talking with a mortgage lender last night and she told me that a 30 year fixed rate conventional loan was at 4.875% yesterday. That's AWESOME! If you own a home and aren't planning on moving you might want to consider refinancing. If you are thinking about buying a home then now is the time!!!! This rate combined with the fist time homebuyer tax credit of $8,000 or the homebuyer credit of $6500, makes buying a home or even selling a home right now ideal. There are even programs in our area that you can buy the home with zero down and have no PMI and still get that rate and the rebates! If you're even considering buying, contact us and we can give you more details about all this.

Thanks,

Scott

Here are the market stats for the Defiance area this year from January 1 through November 8, 2009. These statistics are only for areas that would be considered Defiance, Ohio. If you would like stats for your particular area, just let me know and I can get them to you.

Total Homes Listed: 427

Avg. List Price: $109,209

Total Sold Units: 206

Avg. Sold Price: $94,456

Avg. Days on Market: 154

I will try and keep this up-to-date for you every week so you will have a better picture of what's happening in our market.

Thanks and have a great week!

scott

President Obama is expected to sign into law today the newly extended and expanded tax credit for home buyers. The most interesting addition to the credit is the new credit to existing home owners who want to purchase a new home. The National Association of Realtors website that highlights the differences between the last one and the new one. You can get a pdf download at www.realtor.org

I've been looking forward to this new extention of the credit as there are many people who have been on the fence about moving from their current home to buy a new one. This credit may be the thing that helps them with a little of the loss in equity they have faced over the past couple of years.

Best of luck!

Scott

We had a great time at this year's Halloween parade. Here are a couple of pictures of us and our decorated cart. We ended up running out of candy and passing out all 500 of our flyers. We didn't have enough for the whole crowd. We'll plan differently for next year. I just want to say thanks for all of you who cheered us on and continue to support us. You can see more pictures on our Facebook page.

scott