Buying a Home, Your Biggest and Best Investment

GET TAX CREDITS     If  you are a 1st time home buyer or just wanting to buy a home in this great market, now is the time.   It extends the tax credit offer through June 30, 2010. The bill also opens up opportunities for others who are not buying a home for the first time. Millions of additional people [...] Read full article »

Energy Efficient Mortgage (EEM) is a mortgage that credits a home’s energy efficiency in the mortgage itself. Read full article »

Approved Short Sale! 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms with one bedroom downstairs and full bathroom down stairs, sparking blue waterfall island pool, pavered driveway, fabulous volume ceilings, granite kitchen countertop, formal living room and dining room, laminate wood flooring upstairs, upstairs master bedroom with whirlpool bath tub and separate shower, one bedroom upstairs has outside balcony, [...] Read full article »

First-time home buyers have been getting tax credits of up to $8,000 since January as part of the economic stimulus package enacted earlier this year.   With the program scheduled to expire at the end of November, the Senate voted Wednesday to extend and expand the tax credit to include many buyers who already own homes. Buyers [...] Read full article »

 Working with a buyer can be very stressful and many times the buyer feels the agent is not showing them everything.  Possibly the agent is showing only what the buyer has asked to see and has eliminated properties that are listed as “short sales” or have a pool, when the buyer was adamant they did [...] Read full article »

I have an out of town buyer who is looking at properties between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000.  She requested to see 15 houses, of those 15 only 5 are still available.  Some were short sales with multiple offers, some had pending contracts, a few were rented and one was sold. Moral of the story: There is not [...] Read full article »

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) wants the Obama Administration to extend the $8K tax credit for first-time home buyers but the Obama Administration is concerned about the cost of the program and the IRS claims widespread fraud.  However, lawmakers understand that the program is popular and has helped spur the housing recovery. The existing credit which expires [...] Read full article »

TWO DAYS LATER … A couple of days ago, I blogged about a real estate “deal”  listed for sale in Coral Gables for $299,000. It is  NOW  (already!) …    under contract. 260 Majorca Avenue,    Coral Gables, Florida I don’t often toot my own horn, but for the (several)  buyers who waited a day too long to get in their offer …  [...] Read full article »

Introduction of Debbie Najjar, real estate attorney and realtor. Advice to real estate buyers and sellers interested in purchasing and/or selling their condos/homes in Aventura, Golden Beach and Sunny Isles. Read full article »

Pricing your house to “ SELL” is  a science ! There is a SECRET SCIENCE to  Pricing and  Selling your House!   Price  it  high to allow room for negotiation?  Do you think so?  If so, you are definitely not in the minority .  Many  sellers (and worse still, realtors) think that way… although the vast majority of homes that  actually DO sell here [...] Read full article »