Friday, February 4, 2011

Market Pulse - January 2011 http://wp.me/p146tm-bl

The Orlando real estate market is continuing to change on a daily basis. Below you will find the market trends for Greater Orlando with the most up to date information available. Look through the information below and if I can help to interpret the data please call. In the Orlando area we are continuing to see foreclosures (REO properties) and short sales fill the market, which is maintaining the volatile market place. If you are a buyer, seller, or just have a case of the nosey neighbor syndrome we want to help. Use us as your source for everything real estate.

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Thursday, February 3, 2011

ORLANDO HOME VALUES DECLINING THROUGH 3RD QUARTER-http://wp.me/p146tm-b6

Three quarters of the metropolitan areas of the country are waiting for housing prices to stabilize in the fall, but Orlando is not among them, according to a study published on Tuesday, Fiserv Inc. Fiserv and Moody’s Analytics has reported that house prices have stabilized in a single family of four U.S. urban center. Although housing stabilization is sweeping the nation, Orlando home prices are expected to fall by 14 percent in the third quarter from last year’s third quarter to this year.

The average price of houses in the Orlando metropolitan area four counties was $ 155,000 in the third quarter of last year, Fiserv said.

“We’re only a year and a half away from where prices stabilize in Orlando,” Fiserv chief economist David Stiff said. “Distress sellers — the banks, primarily — have a certain urgency to sell their properties, and that’s created a lot of downward pressure.”

The financial services company finds the foreclosure rate of a local area and unemployment, among other factors to come with his market forecasts. Orlando is not alone in Florida in the form of a late recovery in housing, according to the report of Fiserv, based on the Fiserv Case-Shiller index. Of the states 21 urban areas, eight are expected to see house prices continue to fall in the third quarter of 2012. The largest two-year dropoff in the state is expected to occur in the Miami metropolitan division — Miami-Dade County, essentially. Fiserv analysts predict prices there will fall another 15 percent between the third quarter of 2010 and third quarter of 2011, followed by another 10 percent drop the following year.

The three regions that should register the largest increases in home prices during this period is Ocala (Marion County,primarily), Palm Bay-Melbourne (Brevard County) and Palm Coast (Flagler County). The report showed that these suburban areas will increase by 10 to 11 percent into the third quarter of 2012. By analyzing price fluctuations that ...

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Friday, January 28, 2011

What's up with the #!RT symbols?!? #OldFolks listen up! http://wp.me/p146tm-aV

Let's take a minute to get down to the basics...

Seriously, what's up with all symbols? Am I [Justin] constantly cursing the Facebook & Twitter Worlds? No I'm not, and I'm ashamed if you thought that. It just occured to me that a large portion of our fans and followers are not in the 18 - 28 age group.

This is an example of what I am talking about off our Facebook Fan Page.

 

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All of this gibberish is focused at the Twitter world. The facebook posts just happen to be a byproduct of my laziness in posting separately between the two. There are certain symbols that help to control conversations on twitter, and they are:

@: Talk publicly to another person

This is equivalent to tagging someone on Facebook. If you wanted to say something to me on Twitter you would type: "@thecoREgroup yahta-yahta-yahta..."

Don't forget: Everyone can see this.

d: Talk privately to another person

 

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Thursday, January 27, 2011

OWN A RENTAL PROPERTY? THE IRS NEEDS TO KNOW…

If you own ONE rental unit… from this year on, all vendors that perform at least $600 worth of work for you now, via Federal law, must be sent an IRS 1099 Form. The obligation to monitor the vendors and issue 1099 forms are not new, but last year, when the federal government enacted the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (HR 5297) extended this requirement to all owners, no matter how small. Even property owners who rent are just doing a secondary activity, perhaps as part of the family investment fund or retirement savings plan, are now considered to be  ”conducting trade or business” to declare 1099 as it now applies to them.

 

Friday, January 21, 2011

Just showed a stunning home.

Just showed a stunning lake home. Captured with 360 Panorama in 96.7 seconds.

Don't bank your purchase on a Zestimate? http://wp.me/p146tm-aJ

Zillow is a great real estate website I must admit. This page is one of the first to come up in any real estate based google search, so it must be good and accurate information, right? Personally, as a real estate professional, I like zillow. However, I would be shot at every single listing appointment if I went in with zestimates. Of course, I would love to list homes at zillow prices, because they would sell in a matter of minutes.

The key to selling property is that the sellers set the listing price while buyers determine the sells price. I often have buyers tell me that they will purchase a listing but they will not pay a dime over the Zestimate. What is funny about this is that Zillow admits that these figures are (at times) dramatically different that reality. Without going into detail on how they come up with these numbers, the fact is that this website is unable to account for condition and relevance...

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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

UCF Basketball vs ECU

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