Lake Norman Real Estate - Diane Aurit

 The 2009 Lake Norman Real Estate Market is going to be dependent upon two major national issues: Consumer Confidence Lenders First and foremost, potential home buyers are going to need to feel confident that they are buying a home at the "right" time.  What will instill confidence?  I think it ...

        I am fascinated by all of the shuffling around going on in my greater Lake Norman/Charlotte real estate firms.  Two of the largest privately owned firms in Charlotte just announced a merger, another mega firm closed three offices in the area and a third closed one large office. Who are th...

One of the most frequent questions I get from home buyers planning a move to the Lake Norman area is "how far is that home from shopping?"  Keeping in mind that for the most part, the closer you are to living on the actual shoreline of Lake Norman the farther you are from most restaurants and sh...

 We are truly being bombarded in the local and national news with stories about the crisis in the US housing market.  With so much information gathered by using a variety of sources of information, it can be difficult to know exactly how this news pertains to our local Lake Norman housing market...

I admit that I have not been on ActiveRain as much as I would like lately but I thought I was up to speed on all of the changes.  However, there are some issues that I have and I am wondering if everyone is having them as well so here is my list: When I am on my Home Page I can not click back to...

  The wind went from zero to 60 in what seemed like a nano-second.  Our rainy morning welcomed some clearing skies with gusts of winds that made it nearly impossible for me to get my car door open! They seemed harmless enough.  I sat at my computer about 2pm and while typing away noticed the powe...

It has occurred to me as I have been doing my year end market reports and reading so many others on ActiveRain that I could learn a lot about how my Lake Norman housing market is going to progress this year IF ONLY I could get some true insight from those of you who have hit your bottom and have...

Wow, what a year!  After a significant drop in closed sales in November, we actually had a pretty strong December when compared not only with November 2008 but with December 2007.  And, we in the Lake Norman area were not alone.  December seemed to be a better month for communities all over the c...