Jacksonville, FL Shortsale Success

Jacksonville, FL - At the Round Table we truly believe in People Before Property and hearing from our Customers and their successes gives us goosebumps!! We certainly love to help and we love to hear back that we exceeded expectations:

This note is something I am so extremely happy to write. I have bought
and sold countless homes over the years, but working with Howard has
been a great experience. Due to the unfortunate situation of the sale
this could have been a harrowing situation. I was forced to do a short
sale of my property, last year 2011. I had heard all of the horror
stories about how people are treated by lenders. How they are
requested to submit forms and paperwork time and time again, just to
be served with

My Ode to Diana

Jacksonville, FL - What is an ode? I have no idea if this is one but its a soapbox nonetheless and its a microphone directed at Diana.

Oh, Diana. What you fail to realize when you recount your numbers, when you go on TV and duke it out with the talking heads opposite you in the quatro-box or Joe's Octo-box is that you, and so many of the analysts, like Core Logic's people, S&P's etc. is that the housing market, does in fact, get local. Super local. Hyper-local if I may be du jour. So local in fact that it boils down to James and Marie (names changed to defend the innocent).

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15837671

See Diana, tonight you wrote about the 2 different housing markets and how they are correlated but you leave out so

How Long Has Your Site Agent Worked for Your Builder?

Only Having an Experienced Realtor on Your Side Can Save the Day

Jacksonville, FL - This is a critically overlooked factor in how your home's build is going to go and whether or not you, the customer, will be happy in the end with the product. Remember, the home you're buying is built by a team of subcontractors that is overseen by a project manager or superintendant. This is however not your point of contact or your avenue to make sure that the build process and the end product is what you bought, what you were sold, and what you expected. It is the site agent that is your voice especially if you didn't invite a Realtor to be your advocate (which is free).

With homebuilders tweaking their

Why There Might Only Be 5 Homes For You To Choose From in north Florida....

Despite what you hear on the news about the thousands that are out there

North Florida - I get it. You turn on the news or open the paper and all you hear about are the millions of homes on the market and the millions that are coming. This is perfect because YOU have decided that the time is right to listen to Buffet. When the blood is in the streets is when you should be buying (not during the euphoria 5 years ago). So everything is lining up perfect for you: Interest Rates are crazy low, prices are at steep discounts (and you're going to make an offer remember), and there are millions of homes/condos to choose from... So how in the world can you say that there is 5 to

Why Buy New Homes in Communities like Eagle Landing or Oakleaf Plantation?

Why wouldn’t you shop for a new home while looking to make a move?

You don’t think they are affordable? Well that isn’t the case anymore. The average price of a new home can be anywhere from $190,000 - $215,000 depending on the location and mortgage rates are as low as they’ve ever been in 2011 says Big Builder online.

Freddie Mac said Thursday the average rate on the 30-year loan fell to 4.63 percent from 4.71. The average rate on the 15-year fixed mortgage slipped to 3.82 percent from 3.89 percent. Both are at their lowest points since December.

At $190,000 and 4.63% you are looking at a principal and interest payment of only $953 a month for a 3.5% Down

What does it take to sell your home in Jacksonville, FL

Some Tips from a Real Estate expert on the Today Show about selling your own house

Mortgage rates are lower than last year.

Lower Rates = Larger Home!

• 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 4.17 percent with an average 0.8 point for the week ending November 11, 2010, down from last week when it averaged 4.24 percent. Last year at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 4.91 percent.

• 15-year FRM this week averaged 3.57 percent with an average 0.8 point, down from last week when it averaged 3.63 percent. A year ago at this time, the 15-year FRM averaged 4.36 percent.

• 5-year Treasury-indexed hybrid adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) averaged 3.25 percent this week, with an average 0.7 point, down from last week when it averaged 3.39 percent. A year ago, the 5-year ARM averaged 4.29 percent.

• 1-year

Just when you thought that your home inspector is someone you can trust!

When we were building our first home, we hired a home inspector to check out the work in progress. We did this because we wanted peace of mind- surely this trained professional would be much better equipped to catch construction errors than we were. It was our first home being built from the ground up, and we wanted to feel comfortable knowing that nothing would go wrong at the final walk through. However, during our frequent visits to the construction site, we would find discrepancies that our home inspector had missed. Things that were missed were problems such as the double sliding door to the patio was installed upside down; there were even doors placed on the wrong side

Frank Nothaft, vice president and chief economist

4.4% increase in single family home production

"Meanwhile, the housing construction market is showing some signs of promise. New construction on one-family homes rose 4.4 percent in September to the strongest pace since May. In addition, homebuilder confidence rose in October to the strongest level since June, according to the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index."