I was doing some work recently for a novice property investor and he was asking me some questions about FHA required repairs. He wanted to prepare the house he just purchased so that if the buyers were going to use FHA financing there wouldn’t be any issues at the last minute to hold up the […]
Birmingham, Alabama Cash Buyers: Don’t Make This Mistake
January 11, 2012 By 6 Comments
After seeing an article about how cash buyers have made a strong showing in residential real estate transactions I started wondering how many of them got appraisals on their purchases. Most of the time people think the only reason to get an appraisal is so you can borrow money from the bank. This is only […]
I Can Help Birmingham, AL Realtors With Their Sales Meetings
January 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
If you are a Realtor in the Birmingham, AL area I would like to help you with your sales meetings by providing appraisal education to your agents. I have spoken in the past at local real estate offices about how to read an appraisal, how we come up with comparables, why we sometimes must use […]
A Look At The Absorption Rate In Pelham, Alabama, Ballantrae Subdivision-Pt. 2
January 4, 2012 By 6 Comments
We took a look at the entire Pelham, Alabama market with the last blog post I wrote. Today we are going to narrow things down a bit to the subdivision level and even a certain style of home. Of the 222 sales that occurred in Pelham, AL from 12/15/2010 to 12/15/2011, 59 sales occurred in […]
A Look At The Absorption Rate In Pelham, Alabama, Pt. 1
January 2, 2012 By 11 Comments
You may have heard the term “Absorption Rate” before but not really know what it means. The absorption rate is a measure of how long it will take to sell the current inventory of homes in a given market. This market can be on a large scale such as for the entire country, or it […]
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