Charleston Real Estate Blog

The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) offers the SFR certification to REALTORS® who want to help both buyers and sellers navigate these complicated transactions as demand for professional experience with distressed sales grows. I am pleased to announce that I have taken the required course and webinars and have added the SFR ...

In addition to my personal page which I want to orient towards just having fun, I just created a Facebook page for CharlestonOnlineHomes. You'll find news and opinion impacting the National and Charleston real estate markets.

Zillow.com announces that rental listings will now be available on their website. Anyone who has been frustrated by searching Craigslist with their clunky technology from decades long past and the proliferation of scams found there (such as the one I posted about yesterday) will be excited by the map search technology Zillow offers as well as the ...

I met my wife Polly shortly after her 40th birthday and she was of course, forty and fabulous. And while she is dreading turning 50 today, she is still fabulous. Happy Birthday, I love you. A picture of Polly with her mother just before her first birthday.

Congress has voted on and the President has signed an extension and expansion of the home buyer tax credit. The tax credit is effective immediately and the terms override the terms of the first time home buyer tax credit which was due to expire on November 30, 2009.  The details: An $8,000 tax credit up to 10% of the value of the ...

Boeing's announcement yesterday that Charleston has been selected to be the location for it's second final assembly site for the 787 Dreamliner was cheered locally and covered intensely by not only the mainstream media but by blogs, tweets and facebook posts throughout the Lowcountry. Because it's really all about jobs. Good ...

Polly and I are celebrating our 7th wedding anniversary today. I scanned a picture from our wedding album so the quality may not be as good as digital but apparently our wedding photographer didn't provide us with digital copies. Looking back, we did things a little backward because we went on our honeymoon in February when we took ...

Walter Cronkite, at one time the most trusted man in America, passed away. From the Kennedy assassination to the lunar landing, Vietnam War and Presidential election coverage, if you are over 40, you got your news every night from "Uncle Walter". The NY Times has a great story.

Anyone who reads this blog knows that I'm a big fan of Phil Mickelson. I always hope that he'll hit the little white ball straight and win. When he doesn't, I hope he'll pull off a miracle recovery shot. Sometimes he does, he's exciting and he's won a lot of golf tournaments. Amy Mickelson was diagnosed with bre*st ...

Bill Seidman was head of the FDIC during the Savings and Loan crisis in the late 1980's and early 1990's and worked with Congress to create the Resolution Trust Corp. to solve the mess. Most recently, he was the chief commentator for CNBC. Bloomberg reports: William Seidman, Who Led Cleanup of S&L Crisis, Dies An interesting tidbit ...