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Friday, August 08, 2008 7:01 AM

Anxious sellers in today's market

I spent the past few days showing homes and noticed some sellers are getting especially anxious to sell their homes. Of course, with a lot of inventory available, there is a lot of competition to sell your home in today's Charleston real estate market.
Posted by Howard Arnoff | 2 Comments
Wednesday, April 09, 2008 6:08 AM

Charleston homes for sale

... by auction. What's next, a raffle? There are so many listings of Charleston homes for sale that many sellers are growing not just weary but desperate when their home doesn't sell. I just noticed a home on the Charleston MLS hotsheet at a ridiculously
Posted by Howard Arnoff | 3 Comments
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:03 AM

It's my home, it's worth more

Claude Daigle, one of my regular readers just sent an email to tip me off to a story in the NY Times. David Leonhardt reports on a seller in the SF Bay area who won't sell unless they get their price (even if it takes years!). I've met similar
Posted by Howard Arnoff | 0 Comments
Saturday, March 08, 2008 8:22 AM

Realistic expectations

... regarding Charleston real estate. For sellers, your home is not worth significantly more than others in your neighborhood even though it's yours and is so much nicer than any of the other homes for sale. If you want to sell, your home must be
Posted by Howard Arnoff | 0 Comments
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 6:48 AM

A full time Charleston real estate agent

... is more important than ever for buyers and sellers in today's current difficult market conditions. After taking a long weekend off to attend a family wedding in Orlando, I don't know how any Charleston real estate agent can successfully manage
Posted by Howard Arnoff | 0 Comments
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 9:04 AM

What's my home worth today

The short answer, a little less than it used to be or what you think it is. One of my neighbors asked me what I thought his home was worth last evening as I was sitting on my front porch and I had to tell him the bad news, a little less than it used to
Posted by Howard Arnoff | 0 Comments
Thursday, February 14, 2008 4:16 PM

Under contract in one day ... in this real estate market?

In the good old days of Charleston South Carolina real estate when offers came in simultaneously to the for sale sign being put in the front lawn of a Charleston home for sale, we used to list a home and watch for the contract. Around the real estate
Posted by Howard Arnoff | 0 Comments
Friday, January 25, 2008 9:01 AM

If buyers want new construction ...

how do you sell your "used" home. With unit sales slowing and new construction still plentiful in the Charleston real estate market, it seems that lots of buyers want new construction. I've had a lot of inquiries from potential buyers since
Posted by Howard Arnoff | 0 Comments
Saturday, January 05, 2008 10:02 AM

Charleston real estate prices

What a difference a couple of years can make when analyzing Charleston real estate prices. I got a call from a client the other day inquiring about a home for sale in Mount Pleasant so I pulled it up on my computer as I was talking and immediately remembered
Posted by Howard Arnoff | 0 Comments
Sunday, December 30, 2007 9:53 AM

The Charleston housing market and holiday parties

With the holiday parties wrapping up, it seemed interesting to note how talk of Charleston housing market conditions was different this year vs. previous years. Of course, in the "good old days" of Charleston South Carolina real estate, most
Posted by Howard Arnoff | 0 Comments
Monday, December 03, 2007 10:16 AM

Do you know what your real estate agent is doing

It's 10 AM Monday and I've got a question for buyers and sellers in the Charleston South Carolina real estate market. Do you know what your real estate agent is doing? I don't rant very often, well, OK, maybe once in a while, but ... I was
Posted by Howard Arnoff | 0 Comments
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 4:05 PM

Are you flexible enough to sell your house

The Charleston South Carolina real estate market has a lot of inventory and fewer buyers than before. This is not news. For about a year, this has been the market except that there is even more inventory and fewer buyers. Pricing your home for sale from
Posted by Howard Arnoff | 0 Comments
Saturday, August 18, 2007 5:46 AM

Charleston South Carolina real estate, the sky is falling, the sky is falling.

Is it? Not really, but it does make an excellent headline! Here is another article highlighting the problems in the current real estate market and mortgage market. Thankfully, for those of us in the Charleston South Carolina real estate market, we were
Posted by Howard Arnoff | 7 Comments
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 3:19 PM

Signs of a housing market turnaround

I found an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal Online regarding signs of a housing market turnaround. While the article certainly points out many of the problems facing the housing industry today, I noticed that the headline wasn’t the
Posted by Howard Arnoff | 1 Comments
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 7:11 AM

If a picture is worth a 1000 words, does this say buy me 5000 times

Internet search by real estate consumers has grown immensely over the past few years and at the top of the wish list of every potential home buyer are lots of pictures of homes that meet their search criteria. Many real estate agents provide exactly that
Posted by Howard Arnoff | 0 Comments
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