Top 10 Halloween Safety Tips - 10/31/11 01:07 PM
Booo!!! Here are a few good, common sense tips posted by fellow blogger Peggy Yee to help you all have a fun and safe evening of trick-or-treating. If you'd like to leave comments, please do so on the original post. Peggy will appreciate it.
FYI, trick-or-treating hours in Champaign-Urbana are 6-8pm this year. I'm armed with candy and looking forward to a bunch of little ghouls and critters stopping by my house this evening...
Happy Halloween! :-)
Via Peggy Yee - Search Vienna Homes For Sale - Northern Virginia Real Estate (Stanley Ranch, LLC / Realty Direct, LLC):
Top 10 Halloween Safety Tips
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Champaign IL Housing Market Report 3rd Quarter 2011 - 10/19/11 05:10 PM
Champaign IL Housing Market Report 3rd Quarter 2011
While our Champaign IL real estate market continues to face some of the same challenges that we've seen the first two quarters of the year (as well as in previous years), we've had small improvement in other areas. As you can see from the charts below, our inventory has remained just as high this year as it was last year which has made competition tough for sellers but has given buyers plenty of exceptionally priced homes to choose from. This fact, combined with record low interest rates (again!), translates to an ideal situation … (0 comments)

Champaign County IL Real Estate Market Report, September 2011 - 10/14/11 09:03 PM
Champaign County IL Real Estate Market Report, September 2011
September 2011 Residential Sales Information Compared to September 2010
The following real estate market information concerns only residential sales in greater Champaign County, IL and includes houses, condos, co-ops, and zerolots
September 2011 Closed Sales Statistics:
211 units sold $152,779 average sale price 95.5% sale-to-list price ratio 95 average days on the market September 2010 Closed Sales Statistics:
150 units sold $157,181 average sale price 95.8% sale-to-list price ratio 80 average days on the market  
 
What's going on in our Champaign IL real estate market?
In terms of … (0 comments)

Can We Ask the Seller to Fix it? - 10/07/11 06:05 PM
Can We Ask the Seller to Fix it?
Every home has its quirks and its little flaws, a fact that any new homeowner will quickly discover. There may be cabinet doors that stick in the summer, a temperamental motion-sensor light out back, or that one daggone step that’s always broken... even after you fix it (any fans of Modern Family? anyone?).
Even so, most buyers these days are looking for something “move-in ready” meaning there are no major repairs needing to be done. And so a common question that comes up when I’m working with Champaign-Urbana home buyers concerns what to … (2 comments)