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November 2006 - Posts

Thursday, November 30, 2006 4:21 PM

How to be a happy seller in a buyer's market

Selling in a buyer’s market doesn’t appear to be a good idea but it could actually be an excellent idea. Why? Because most home sellers then become home buyers. Once the house is under contract or sold, the seller then becomes a buyer. At
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 4:00 PM

Sandlapper Track & Field Classic

Join the staff of West Ashley High School, many of the top area businesses, and the regional news media to fire off the 2007 season with a new standard of excellence and accommodations in what will be South Carolina’s “must go to” season
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 3:29 PM

The real Charleston real estate market

The Charleston real estate market has been very strong for the past 5 years as have most places across the country. We did not have wild speculation and crazy price increases, rather a nice steady appreciation due to excellent job growth, a significant
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 3:10 PM

Median price vs Average price

With the media spotlight on housing prices across the country, I noticed the usage of median price used much more extensively than average price and wondered about the distortion that could be created. What is important to remember is that median price
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Monday, November 27, 2006 2:43 PM

Flipping in today's real estate market

I just saw this house go up for sale in my neighborhood, it is the former model (very nice) that the builder just sold for $295,000 is right back on the market for $329,900. Now I really don't know how anyone plans to make money on this deal but someone
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Monday, November 27, 2006 2:33 PM

Thanksgiving at the Beach

As we do every year, we spent a long weekend over Thanksgiving at the beach in Hilton Head Island and it is great to get away and just as great to be back home in Charleston. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday with family and/or friends. After the
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 3:41 PM

Buyers Market

New construction has been slowing dramatically as the national builders try to work off their excess inventory and cut back on the number of starts. Price declines in new construction are the inevitable result of incentives being offered to clear high
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Monday, November 20, 2006 6:53 PM

An amazing amount of info on Charleston

From Wikipedia , Charleston (Latin: Carolopolis) is a city in the counties of Berkeley and Charleston in the U.S. state of South Carolina ; the city serves as the county seat and largest city of Charleston County . The city was founded as Charlestown
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Monday, November 20, 2006 5:57 PM

Welcome

Welcome to my Charleston real estate blog. Photographed in late November, my camelia with its many buds and just ready to burst into full bloom. I'll be adding many posts to this blog which I hope you'll find interesting in the days, weeks, months
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