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As we wind down 2013, Flagler County & Palm Coast once again saw another positive year.  With just a few days left in 2013, the area is already finishing the year at least 2% above 2012 in terms of the number of residential house sales with 2,066.  Some other highlights for the year are: November...

Guest author, Brad West, is my husband and assists me with my real estate business.  He is the designer of PalmCoastHomeShow.com, is licensed in real estate (inactive at this time due to another career), and works in online marketing and communications.  He writes about his thoughts on the curren...

If you’ve ever attended a public meeting regarding something occurring in your town or neighborhood, you’ve probably heard at least one person make the claim of how the change or situation will effect their “property value”.  Property value is also one of the most misunderstood items of homeowner...

Matanzas Woods, originally a golf community, located on the north end of Palm Coast has seen it’s own share of unique challenges over the last few years.  The community is home to the Matanzas Golf Course that closed a few years ago after a failed venture to remodel the course.  Recently the cour...

When it comes to buying and selling real estate, it’s important to make informed and educated decisions.  The worst thing to do is to speculate about the seller, the buyer, the market conditions, the property, etc.  Speculating on any of these things can cause buyers to lose out on a property the...

The area is still seeing a decent amount of buyer traffic and closings.  For the month we are slightly down compared to closings for the same period last year when 132 closed compared to 114 this year or 14% below last year.   One of the things to keep in mind with this year is the Government shu...

I really like all of the recent updates to Active Rain.  This is a great update that provides a huge amount of benefit and further adds to the power of the platform.  Great job AR! We recently released a new feature on ActiveRain that easily allows you to set up Google Authorship inside of Active...

Over the past 2 years we have seen a very dramatic, and very positive, change in local market conditions.  The average number of days on the market is down below 100 days in Palm Coast and slightly over 100 in all of Flagler County year-to-date.  We continue to see the number of residential home ...

Owners who have short sold their home know that it can be a daunting ordeal, and there are some negative ramifications on credit .  The question for most at the end of it all is, “When can I buy a house again?” especially with so many great deals available today.  Blair Lamphier, owner of Communi...

January was definitely going to be an interesting month for local real estate because of the performance in 2012 when we saw 122 residential house close which was 56% above 2011.  January is typically the lowest number of real estate closes each year in the area.  January 2013 didn’t come in abov...