13 Cities: Boost in Home Price For the first time in eight months the home prices in most major U.S cities are rising as a result of the big spring buying wave. According to the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller, home prices rose in 13 of the 20 cities. The biggest increases were in Washington, D.C, San [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Real Estate Market’
South Carolina is Recovering
June 29th, 2011 by David-Willis
The South Carolina real estate market is recovering. There is great news for South Carolina residents! Analysts are now saying that the state is recovering from the recession and that the economy is growing in the state’s gross domestic products. After a five year decline, 2009-10 showed great improvement and South Carolina’s unemployment rate even [...]
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Tags: Real Estate Market, south carolina, south carolina real estate 
No Comments »Real Estate Market Study
June 18th, 2011 by David-Willis
A new study from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, suggests that the rental market is beginning to tighten and with vacancy rates falling, rents are increasing. The reason for this is that the rents could rise sharply as the demand increases. The study also suggests that affordability is likely to go down over [...]
Posted in Featured, General, Listing Information Tags: harvard, housing study, Real Estate Market, rental, rental housing, vacancy ratess No Comments »BE SMART: Get An Appraisal
July 27th, 2010 by David-Willis
As we have recently been telling you, right now, the real estate market is a buyers market!! A recent article on scnow.com speaks of how much lower interest rates in the Myrtle Beach are since five years ago. Also, it seems that the past six months, in the Myrtle Beach area, home sales are up [...]
Posted in Featured, General, Mortgage Tags: appraisal, buyers market, Interest Rates, myrtle beach, Real Estate Market 1 Comment »Are Times Changing?
September 30th, 2008 by David-Willis
I was reading an article over at Search Factory that discusses the situation with the gas shortages and the high price of gas nowadays. It got me thinking about how real estate agents in today’s market are handling these types of dilemmas. I remember when (and I am sure it still happens today) real estate [...]
Are They Helping the Real Estate Market?
September 11th, 2008 by David-Willis
We all know that one of the biggest problems in real estate right now would be the availability of financing. With the news about the government takeover of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae this can make a big change in the real estate market. Investors are getting their confidence rebuilt back into the market to [...]
Posted in Featured, General Tags: Beach Real Estate, Market Investors, Myrtle Beach Real Estate, Real Estate Market No Comments »Myrtle Beach Real Estate Techniques
September 11th, 2008 by David-Willis
Tuesday was our company wide meeting with Coldwell Banker Chicora and we tried something a little different than normal meetings. We had different stations set up around the room and at each table we had one of our top Myrtle Beach real estate agents. Each table was set up to encompass that agent’s specialty and [...]
Myrtle Beach Open House
August 4th, 2008 by David-Willis
Are open houses a thing of the past? I doubt it, but the purpose of an open house has probably changed. Having an open house has always been used as a tool to gain buyer leads for Realtors. But in today’s real estate market with the technology that’s out there and the ability of today’s [...]
Posted in Featured, General Tags: Beach House, Beach Houses, myrtle beach, Open House, Open Houses, Real Estate Market, Realtors, Video Tours, Virtual Tours No Comments »Myrtle Beach Foreclosures and Short Sales
July 31st, 2008 by David-Willis
We all know that the market prices have been declining for awhile now. Mix with that some homeowners that refinanced their mortgages using up their equity, and the creative mortgages that have been around for awhile created somewhat of a bad situation for the real estate market. This has caused a number of short sales [...]
Posted in Featured, General Tags: Avoid Foreclosure, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Mortgages, myrtle beach, Real Estate Market 1 Comment »Real Estate Market Survey
July 16th, 2008 by David-Willis
In reading an article about how home buyers are hopeful about the real estate market I noticed how it still really comes back to consumer confidence. With the people surveyed 44% felt that the market would get better with the new president. With that in mind 81% surveyed are still nervous about the current market. [...]
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