Charleston Real Estate Blog

You would think that when you look at a Charleston short sale for sale that you should be able to get a good deal. But surprisingly, sometimes the price is not all that great but if you happen to really like the home, you might think one of two things, can I buy it for even less than the offering price or should I just pass and keep looking. ...

I worked with clients recently seeing homes and we just saw too many in one day. After all, you really only want to find one perfect home and there really isn't a right or wrong number of homes to choose to view and more than likely you will pick too many or too few to see. Depending on how slowly or quickly you look at homes, ...

When you're selling your home in Charleston, it goes without saying that a clean uncluttered home will appeal to potential buyers. But there are a few more things to consider to place your home in the best possible light. Let's start with the front door and it's actually more than a little curb appeal because whether you ...

In what shouldn't be much of a surprise, Bloomberg reports that, "Residential real estate prices fell more than forecast in November, showing distressed properties are hampering improvement in the US housing market. The S&P Case-Shiller index of property values in 20 cities declined 3.7 percent from November 2010 after decreasing 3.4 ...

It seems like an appropriate time to discuss a better way of finding and choosing a real estate agent which is probably just as important as finding the perfect home in light of this weekend's brouhaha in the REnet regarding syndicated listings and the battle for LEADS being waged by real estate agents trying to get you to contact ...

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 ...

I got an email last evening from someone searching one of those syndicated real estate websites (you know the kind I'm talking about that don't have the most recent and accurate information) who fell absolutely in love with a Charleston home for sale. But the only problem was that particular home sold about 3 months ago so unless the new ...

Paint is inexpensive and one of the best returns on investment when you're selling your home in Charleston. For whatever reason, some sellers don't want to bother to paint their homes before listing them for sale and that creates a good opportunity for buyers since many other buyers might be turned off of an otherwise nice home ...

One of my clients told me that they were a little frustrated that several of the homes they have looked at have gone under contract while they were still in the decision making process. The fact is that despite what you may have heard, some homes in Charleston go under contract very quickly and if you happen to like a home quite a bit, ...

As a follow up to the Charleston real estate market report posted the other day, here is a chart of Charleston monthly home sales by price range. For homes selling for $300,000 and under, sales were 6.5 percent higher in 2011 than 2010. For homes selling between $300,000 and $600,000, sales were 7.75 percent higher year over year and for homes ...