Category: NC
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Market News
A recent headline in the News and Observer reads “Picky buyers, touchy sellers slow home sales.” The article describes buyers as “on a quest for perfection at the perfect price,” while “sellers feel humiliated and even angry.” Not all buyers are picky and not all sellers are touchy, but it’s true that many of them…
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Area News
I recently had the good fortune to attend my first performance at the Durham Performing Arts Center — DPAC for short. The play was great and the facility wonderful, but I was even more impressed by the entertainment complex that Durham has created out of the old American Tobacco factory. Besides DPAC, the pedestrian-friendly mall…
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Area News
The Triangle often ranks high on those lists of Best/Most something places to live; we’ve gotten blase` about being told we’re wonderful. This latest one, though, is pretty cool — The Daily Beast says that we’re the smartest! We beat out Boston (#3) and New York City (#13) and our arch-rival Charlotte could do no…
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Area News
A seller called me today. I showed his house maybe five or six months ago. “It’s getting down to crunch time,” he said. “I just want to tell you that we will consider any offer.” As I recall, his home was priced around $400,000. My clients would have bought it, if they had been in…
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Area News
For the next few months, year-over-year statistics will show dramatic improvement. This is misleading, because a year ago our economy came almost to a standstill. During Fourth Quarter 2008 and First Quarter 2009, the stock market was falling hundreds a points a day, every day, until it reached the low point of half its 14,000…
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Greetings!
I am going to be posting in three categories: Area News, Garden News, Personal News. All my posts will be tagged with one of those categories, so you can use the tags to filter for the posts that interest you. Area News posts will include information about the local real estate market — local to…
ADVENTURES IN REAL ESTATE 