Orlando homes for sale are situated a little differently lately, upside down.  In summary, a short sale is a situation where you owe the lender more than you can sell your home for.  Fortunately, in today's real estate environment lenders have become more lenient in accepting less than the full amount owed to them to avoid the lengthy and costly process of foreclosure. 

What this means to you is that your family has options, but you must consult with professionals who are experienced in these type of negotiations. TeamConnect has knowledge of all the short sale procedures and our team has short sale packets ready to go.  We are also partnered with a team of attorneys and title agencies who negotiate and close short sales every single day.  Couple that with our extensive knowledge of the local markets like Dr Phillips, Windermere real estate and Orlando homes coupled with our pool of investors who seek buying opportunities you have a winning  that benefits all parties.  I 

The best part for you as a seller is that any commission due us will be negotiated and paid by the lender...not you!  Call TeamConnect today to discuss whether you are a candidate for a short sale.  We understand that the real estate environment today can be confusing and frustrating for families so we guarantee expert advice and care while maintaining the strictest confidentiality and privacy as we discuss your personal and financial matters.

Call us today for a FREE consultation to see if a short sale will work for you.  407-516-1000

Dr Phillips Community is starting youth flag football, September 18, 2009 thru November 20th.  Registration is July 27th thru September 4th, please bring a copy of birth certificate. The cost is $30.00 and that includes the jersey.  Age groups for Boys and Girls 5 to 10 years of age, groupings will be 5-6, 7-8 and 9-10.  VOLUNTEER COACHES are NEEDED if you are an arm chair coach give it a try! Coaches child plays free of charge, one child per coach.

Games will be in the beautiful Dr Phillips 43 acre lighted lake side park, featuring many other Field activities, like Baseball, Football, Soccer, Basketball and sand volleyball, please feel free to stop in and check it out.  Phase Two coming soon with Orlando Magic donating $25 Million which includes a gym and recreation building.

For more information call DR.P. PHILLIPS COMMUNITY PARK, at 407-254-9045 and located at 8249 Buenavista Woods Bolivard or you can always call TeamConnect at 407-516-1000 your Dr Phillips Real Estate Experts.

Don't forget about the Dr. Phillips homes for sale and the newly built luxury estates off of Big Sand Lake with bike trails leading to Dr. Phillips Park, restaurant row and of course Award winning schools.  There are still bank owned Orlando homes for sale and a few Dr. Phillips Luxury Homes available, which tend to be some of your better deals. 

Call Century 21 Home of TeamConnect your Dr. Phillips specialist. 407-516-1000

No time to build your dream home?  Then it's time to explore this beautiful semi-custom estate built in 2008 in Dr. Phillips most popular NEW lakefront community, Venezia!  Move right in to this two story Mediterranean style home with a brick paver drive and walkway, tiled roof and a 3 car garage with rich, dark wood doors.  This Casa Veneto features a screen enclosed brick paved patio with a heated pool and spa with amazing views of the tranquil pond with a lighted fountain.  The inside is luxurious yet comfortable featuring 5 bedrooms, 4 and one half bathrooms with faux painting, an upstairs bonus room, formal dining and living rooms, family room with an entertainment center built in around the gas fireplace, double pane windows and doors, foam insulation, energy efficient Trane heat pumps and two top-of-the-line air conditioning handlers, one upstairs to cool 3 bedrooms and bonus room and one downstairs for 5^th bedroom/office and Master suite.  This caliber of a home includes a gourmet kitchen with an island, breakfast bar, eat-in space, granite countertops, built-in wine rack and stainless steel Viking appliances including a 6 burner propane gas cooktop.  Just fall in love with the Master suite and spa bathroom with tray ceilings, cove lighting, Cultured marble jetted tub, walk-in closets and Travertine on his/hers countertops, flooring & shower. 

VENEZIA is in Orlando's most sought out area; Dr. Phillips and is zoned for its award winning "A" rated schools.  This new community of 53 homes is situated lakefront to Big Sand Lake, a 1,000 acre ski lake adorned with some of Orlando's most prestigious lakefront estates.  Also, residents can enjoy the community's lakefront park, playground, picnic pavilion and convenience to Restaurant Row, Dr. Phillips Park, major highways, golf courses, shopping malls and outlets, Orlando International Airport, Disney, Universal and so much more!

Central Florida's real estate market has been heating up this past few months with buyers seeing value and feeling comfortable purchasing homes.  Basic economics is gradual decreases in price until value comes back, WECLOME BACK VALUE, we missed you! 

This Spring investors both foregin (UK and Canada) and local buyers are purchasing bank owned condominums and single family homes under 150k, many of them cash purchases.  It started with the condo market and prices under 50k in April and May and since moved on to single family homes.  The past 90 days just in the Hamptons there were 95 sold and pending sales and in Metro West area during the same period 418, a great start going into Summer.  I think history will look back on Spring and Summer of 2009 as the bottom of the market. 

Bank owned homes and condominiums were and still are hot buys starting out 2009.  Priced attractive with quick response times make them good deals, unlike the messy "short sale" process.  Searching the MLS for communities that used to be filled with these highly sought after properties are now coming up empty handed or at best one or two over priced properties.  Looking back the first quarter of 2009 an investor would of had a field day with minimal competition and the pick of the crop.  Today as soon as bank owned properties hit the MLS Realtors are quick to get the information to their buyers and most times are in a multiple offer situation with purchase prices going above list price. 

Serious investors many offering cash are now purchasing multiple condominium bulk sales.  Typically priced below market value these bulk sale condo units sell at 60 to 70 percent off market value.  Yes there is still value and asset managers know the current activity in the Central Florida real estate market.

One community within minutes from down town Orlando and popular restaurant row in Dr. Phillips advertises units at $80,000 to $90,000 per unit but purchasing a mixed number of one and two bedroom condos you can negoticate that price in the $50,000's.  Two pools, indoor racket ball, fitness room and lakefront property. 

Orlando is not the only place offering bulk sales, St. Pete and the costal community will have bulk sales coming up in the next month.  Opportunity is out there for people willing to look. 

Central Florida's Dr. Phillips homes, Windermere and Orlando real estate markets are seeing an increase in buyer activity which bolds well going into Spring and Summer months.  Agents in the office are walking with a jump in their step, phones ringing, buyers in conference rooms and offers and contracts are being signed, Gang, I think we hit bottom, in some markets.

Take a look at the numbers from the Orlando Regional Realtors Association last month, we don't have March numbers but I have a strong feeling when they do come out we'll see significant increases in properties going under contract and closing.

If you're wondering why we're not hearing this on the local news it's because they talk about previous month's activity.  Sure we want to know trends so that we get a good idea of where we're going but I'm talking about March and what's going on now. The bottom of the market doesn't mean everyone can purchase either.  Banks are still very tight with lending, it's a buyers market because the inventory levels are still very high but not a borrowers market. We are seeing more cash and multiple offers on bank owned homes which tend to be some of the better deals.

Make no mistake the economy's struggling and there are a lot of variables that could throw cold water on any market come back but investors are picking up properties and many times more then one.  Central Florida's real estate market came crashing down in 2006 and the climb up will be slow and methodical with hiccups along the way. One thing is for sure the real estate market will come back and we'll know we hit bottom when we see significant increases in pending and closed properties.  Waiting for the absolute bottom of the market you may be waving at a boat that already sailed and much of the leverage a buyer had in the past would be gone playing on a more leveled playing field.

Windermere's world-known Luxury Golf Club Community Isleworth is nestled on over seven miles of shore line on the beautiful Windermere Chain of Lakes.  Carefree life style for some of Central Florida's famous professional athletes and executives.  With neighbors like Bay Hill and Dr. Phillips, Isleworth carved out a nitch of prestine land with views to die for. 

Isleworth Country Club is an exclusive club for members and their guests. Golfers that have the treat of playing enjoy generous landing zones, big fast greens and a golf course that consistently ranks as Florida's longest and toughest.  

Known for sought after Luxury Estate homes featuring water and golf frontage in a 6,000-acre private gated community.  Only minutes from downtown Orlando, Disney attractions and major shopping malls . 

The famed Butler Chain of Lakes, a series of lakes connected by canals. Residents of Isleworth have access to the lakes from a private launch area within the community. 

Sellers can be their own worst enemy when trying to sell in a strong buyers market.  Home owners selling in today's market better get ready to enter shark infected waters.  Bank owned, pre foreclosures and short sales liter the Orlando, Windermere and Dr. Phillips real estate market, adding to the already high inventory levels.  Here are five steps to set your home Free and get it sold.

1.  Price  Your list price is the most important element of the selling process.  An over price home will not get showings and with no showings come no offers.  There are two strategies when pricing a home. 
In today's strong buyers market pricing a home CLOSER to where it will sell and staying firm on the price is your best bet.  Sure you may get low ball offers but everyone does.  What you are doing is pricing your home attractively which will result in more showings then an over priced home and getting offers you can work with. 

2.  Staging  That's right a new buyer is not taking the towels on the floor or the dirty dishes in the sink but they are looking at it and talking about it and not paying attention to the floor plan and the features of the home.  Going out with buyers the past 10 years I see them get distracted in a home that does not show pristine.  Comments like "I would never sell my home looking like this"  and usually the jokes start to follow.  Buyers can not imagine themselves buying a messy, cluttered home but they do see themselves in a show room ready home with everything in its place. 

3.  Exposure  It makes no sense stopping at the Price and the Staging aspects of a home going on the market with out plan for maximum exposure.  No two Realtors or real estate companies for that matter work the same.  The numbers tell us 87% of buyers start their search on the Internet.  Past experience has shown me sellers choose a Realtor based on the price rather then what they will do to get a home sold.  Interview at least two real estate companies and better yet three.  Hire the company that shows you the Internet exposure and print advertising your home will receive. 

4.  Accessibility  So you are all set with steps 1-3 but how about accessibility.  Are you tying your Realtor's hands by only allowing showings at certain times or only by appointment with your Realtor.  You only need one buyer and we never know which one it will be but we do not most likely it will not be the buyer that can not get in to see your home.  Sure they can come back another day but what usually happens is they move on to another subdivision, city or town. 

The best showing instructions in today's real estate market is for a courtesy call to the home owner on one or two phone numbers letting them know a showing has been scheduled, usually a 1 hour window.  Electronic lock box on the door.  For seller that are at home when the doorbell rings have all the lights turned on lite music on LOW and step out and let the Realtor show the home to the buyers.  Buyers will not feel comfortable looking through your home if you are there and they can not imagine this to be there home if the home owner is standing right next to them. 

5. Work every offer   Don't brush away your early offers thinking more are right around the corner.  Some of your first offers are your best.  After a buyer looks through homes in an area and nothing interests them they will wait for new listings to come on the market.  These can be some of the best buyers.  They know what they are looking for and have already looked at homes for sale.  Work every offer to the end and ALWAYS leave the door open for buyers to come back. 

To find Your List Price in the Orlando, Dr. Phillips and Windermere communities let Century 21 Home to TEAMCONNECT and Eight Realtors be one of your three appointments you make with a real estate company. 

For the home buyer looking for tree covered streets and lots larger then your cookie cutter subdivision Windermere communities should be one of your first stops.   A couple of years ago you needed at least $500,000 to get into one of Windermere's sought after communities but with the decline in home prices the past two years Windermere real estate is ripe for the picking. 

A place that's known as "The Town Among the Lakes"  Windermere has the look and feel of yesteryears and could be a canvas for a Norman Rockwell painting.  A person could miss down town Winderemere if they blink.  The brick paved roads under moss covered trees and steady paced traffic makes a person slow down from a busy day.