Lake Norman Real Estate - Diane Aurit

  Today is a perfect day to be out on Lake Norman boating and playing, especially for our children who are on summer vacation.  It's hard to believe that another year has gone by and that this Friday - Sunday are North Carolina's annual tax-free back-to-school days! Technically, the sales tax ho...

  Okay, so I admit it, I love showing waterfront property here on Lake Norman by boat.  (The above picture is of my skipper/husband while we are waiting for my clients to arrive.) Not a bad way to spend a beautiful day!  However, in all seriousness, it is extremely important, particularly for ou...

  I had some time this morning to actually look at the back-end data on my own blog and was totally surprised at the trends I found regarding Referred Browser Hits.   For comparison,  Here is what I found: Overall: Since I created my own blog over a year ago, ActiveRain  has represented 74.1% of...

LAKE NORMAN RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE HOT SHEET Friday, July 25, 2008  Hot Sheet 7/25/08 7/11/08  6/27/08   5/12/08   4/12/08   3/10/08  New Listings  138 157 142 189 169 174 Back- on Market  54 43 55 46 42 40 Price Changes  238 204 248 212 204 154 Pending Sales  61 37 55 49 37 52 Sold  47 42 41 45...

  Birkdale Village is a true destination for so many different people in the Lake Norman area.  For someone like me who every-once-in-a-while wants to get a California "fix", I go because of its upscale shopping, restaurants, theater and overall ambiance. But, it also attracts myriad young famil...

  Not two days after one of my out-of-state buyers asked me about how the housing slowdown has effected Lake Norman builders, the lead article in The Charlotte Observer's Business Section was:  "Housing slump slams Mecklenburg builders.  In a signal of the market's steep decline, building permit...

  View a new "Earth Friendly" green home today, July 19th and tomorrow July 20th in Lake Norman!  Pippin Home Designs has opened their "Live Green Project" home in partnership with Habitat for Humanity to raise money for Women's Build, a program to build adequate homes for mothers and children. ...

  Would you be surprised to know that many of those relocating to Lake Norman do so only after first deciding that they want to live on a lake in the southeastern US and then determining through their own research that Lake Norman is the best lake in the southeastern US?  Perhaps its our 550 mil...

  Effective July 1, 2008, there have been numerous small and some significant changes/additions/deletions to the standard North Carolina real estate forms jointly approved by the North Carolina Association of Realtors AND the North Carolina Bar Association. As a home buyer or seller in the Lake ...

  The Lake Norman Home Builders Association launched a new quarterly magazine "The Lake" this spring which, according to Larry Airey, Executive Officer of the Lake Norman Builders Association, "flew off the shelves"! To substantiate that Lake Norman home builders are not just interested but taki...