Greater Des Moines Real Estate and Living Journal
Matt Grohe, RE/MAX Real Estate Concepts, 8020 Douglas Ave Urbandale, IA 50322. Matt is licensed in Iowa.
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2009
You have some clients or a client. They've told you they're first time buyers and they are eagerly seeking to take advantage of the up to $8,000 First Time Home Buyer Credit available at present until November 30th 2009. They are looking at homes right and left. You're calling and making appointm...
09/26/2009
The Iowa Association of Realtors has released complete housing stats for the month of August 2009. Iowa and Des Moines unfortunately bucked positive national trends to post declines in average prices, but posted slight gains in volume(good!), but also in days on market(not good!). Here's a summar...
09/26/2009
Maybe we're behind the curve, or perhaps we're out in front, my suspicion is though that all agents in Iowa will enjoy the new housing stats system unveiled by the IAR in September 2009. We've always been able to produce reports, but data such as unit sales per month, comparisons to previous year...
09/26/2009
This year, 2009, will mark the third year I've had the honor to volunteer to assist in the Memory Walk sponsored by the Alzheimer's Association-Greater Iowa chapter. Alzheimer's affect so many people which makes this a very important event. Just today I had a client in my office whom I invited to...
09/21/2009
Plastered all over the media this past week was news that mortage rates fell for the week ending September 7-11 2009 as a result of Fed auction results. The rates are now near historic lows. Here are a few links to stories about the drop which was announced primarily on September 10th 2009: http:...
09/13/2009
The stats are in! The stats are in! July 2009 was a blowout month for sales in the area with 890 homes sold* making July the best month for unit sales since August 2007. So, many were hoping that August would ride July's coat tails. Sadly, those folks were disappointed. Data released on Thursday ...
09/13/2009
For the first two years of the real estate market slowdown our local paper, The Des Moines Register did a pretty poor job of accurately reporting on the housing crisis and its effect on the local economy. This year however it has been putting out some pretty good stories about how the Des Moines ...
09/07/2009
Well it's that time again. Time to close the pools and elect four new members to serve four year terms to the Des Moines school board. Since Des Moines has a fairly large district with 30,783 students anda budget of appx. $420,650,000 funded by local residents and homeowners, it behooves the gene...
09/07/2009
Recently I had the honor of being accepted into the 5th joint Polk County Sheriffs-Des Moines Police Department Citizen's Academy. Tonight, September 1st marked our first session and if tonight's any clue, it's going to be very informative and a lot of fun. Our class of 32 members came from all w...
09/01/2009
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Matt Grohe is with RE/MAX Concepts, 8020 Douglas Ave Urbandale, IA. Matt is licensed in Iowa.