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I know… most sellers at some point take a look at the ‘Zestimate’ that Zillow produces for their property.  And there is almost always one of two reactions…

“Those people are on crack, my house is worth way more than that” (if the Zestimate is lower than expected)
“Wow, I didn’t know it [...]

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I can’t think of a question that I am asked more…
What is my home worth?
And there as many answers as there are times the question is asked.  There are a lot of sources for the information…

Appraisers
Real Estate Agents
Automated Valuation Models

And the results come in many flavors…

Appraisal
Comparative Market Analysis (CMA)
Broker Price Opinion (BPO)
Zestimates

There is [...]

I have a really cool tool called the Client Gateway that I deploy for my buyers.  It builds a web site for them with the new listings that meet their needs.
I was doing some maintenance today, checking for messages in the Gateways of a few buyers and seeing if I needed to get further information [...]

I have been wondering about this…
Many real estate agents require registration for their property search.  I haven’t done that since I have been in control of my website… and don’t intend to ever require registration.  But…  I wonder about having registration for access to my market reports.
I actually work quite hard to really interpret the [...]

And it is over on Lilburn Dwellings.  Go over, take a look.  Hopefully March will see the market picking up.

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I just ran across a story from Forbes and Yahoo about America’s Most Vacant Cities.  The list is this…

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With the recently passed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, expected to be signed as soon as it hits the President’s desk, many are wondering what might be in it for them.
Well, with $790,000,000,000 there is room for a LOT of people to find a bit of cash. These are the ones that directly [...]

2008 Real Estate Report & 2009 Outlook
We’ll be delivering our 2008 market data report as well as a 2009 outlook with in-depth insight into specific hyper-local markets.  Wanna know more about the current real estate climate?  This is it!
The Diamond Dwellings crew will be talking about the Gwinnett Real Estate market and how we think [...]

It is that time again…  I gave FMLS a couple of days to see if there were any fast revisions on the sales data (there was) and now I ready to let fly with the market report covering the preliminary numbers from December and the (probably) final numbers for November.

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Friday on BlogTalkRadio, the question was, “Is now the time to buy?” I was on the show for the last 20 minutes or so talking about it with Ken Cook, the host. The full broadcast is about an hour long, but I can hit the high points…

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