Charleston Real Estate Blog

Let's face it, everyone wants to see as many photos as possible when searching the Charleston MLS online but there are some good reasons why sometimes there are few to no photos available. There are homes that are generously called "handyman specials" which is code for a real fixer upper. If you saw a front lawn and ...

Sales in the Charleston area have picked up significantly recently and the number of available homes for sale is as low as its been in several years so it is no wonder that the absorption rate (how many months it would take to sell out of inventory if no new homes came on the market) is down. Here are the absorption rates by ...

In case you doubted it (and you probably didn't), pictures of Charleston homes for sale are ultra important. Yesterday, the Charleston MLS was down for most of the morning and very early afternoon. I couldn't log on but that was OK, I did some yard work and used the excuse to get out on the golf course on a beautiful day. But while I was ...

Yes, you can search all Charleston homes for sale on any of your Apple mobile devices with no registration required (unless you want to save a search or a fave). That includes your iPhone, your iPad2 or the new iPad3 when it becomes available on Friday March 16th if you're lucky enough to get one that day. Yesterday, traffic ...

There is no better way to determine Charleston real estate market conditions than to look at the absorption rate. The absorption rate is an indicator of supply and demand and prices will generally follow the trend either up or down. As you can see in the chart to your left, there is overall improvement in the absorption rate and with the ...

As I wrote in The Dirty Little Secret of Charleston Real Estate Search, you're being bought and sold as a LEAD when you search for homes on Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com and other syndicated websites. Late last year, Edina Realty, a large Midwestern brokerage announced they were no longer going to allow their listings to be displayed on ...

Happy Saturday. It's always fun to share really bad pictures that pop up in the Charleston MLS from time to time. Tilt! Does this home have structural issues or is the photo just taken on a sharp angle. Notice the bottom left of the photo where the person walking down the street is scurrying away from the home rather quickly just in ...

Based on the median sales price, the Charleston real estate market is showing the famous "double dip" in home prices. The median price is affected by the mix of homes sold and when more less expensive homes sell, the median price will decline and due to a high number of distressed sales in the Charleston area including ...

Probably the most frustrating thing for buyers searching Charleston homes for sale is finding a listing in the price range and location that they are interested in only to see that there are only a couple of pictures. The first thing that might come to mind is that something must be wrong with that house and since there are usually hundreds ...

... and why. I attended hearitdirect, an amazing conference held in Charleston yesterday featuring panels of Charleston real estate consumers who provided insights into buying, selling and their use of technology to search Charleston homes for sale. Let's focus on what they had to say about how the search process. The most ...