The bedrock of the residential real estate industry is the American Dream of owning your own home. Current market conditions have amplified another motivator: those looking for great investment opportunities. There have always been professional..

Homeowners Helping Sell a home It’s winter – the days short, the weather frigid - and unless you are someone who is trying to sell a second home at Sunday River Ski Resort or Sugarloaf Mountain, chances are you understand this is a…

Few will argue that buying and selling real estate isn’t a specialized business transaction, or that when you want to buy or sell a property in the Lewiston-Auburn area, hiring a Lewiston-Auburn real estate agent isn’t the most common…

Cristina McBreairty | RE/MAX Allied | (207) 653-1604 94 Fair St, Lewiston, ME Well-maintained Oversized 4-Bedroom Ranch 4BR/2+1BA Single Family House offered at $189, 900 Year Built 1958 Sq Footage 2, 146 Bedrooms 4 Bathrooms 2 full, 1 partial…

Enough already! Economy this! Housing market that!. It seems like we have been bombarded with mostly bad news forever. Every month Lewiston-Auburn would-be home sellers and prospective buyers hope for signs that the economy has turned around, and…

Tear it down, or spend a kazillion dollars renovating the space? The City of Lewiston Maine has long struggled with ideas for what to do with the Bates Mill No. 5 building. Much of the city center has been undergoing a revival over the past ten…

While driving around to showings and checking on listings this week, I had the pleasure of passing by several homes in the Lewiston/Auburn area that had been vacant. Some were foreclosures, some short sales, and others simply abandoned by their…

If you are a Lewiston Auburn Maine property owner who is seriously considering whether to sell your house, you know there are many practical details that bear careful consideration. One of the first is the decision regarding whether or not -- and if…

I’ve heard it said that there are really only two kinds of people in the Lewiston-Auburn area: those who make New Year’s resolutions, and everybody else. Now that we are fully launched into 2012, humanity will have already separated…

Yes, interest rates are so low right now, it seems like money is on sale! Home buyers who had been hesitating are getting busy looking at homes, making offers, and buying. After a bit of a slow down this past October and November, the Maine real…

When you sell your home, do you have to consider what types of financing the HOME will qualify for? I recently heard a potential home seller state that financing was not his problem when he lists his home for sale. In the current real estate…

Part of the everyday vocabulary for everyone who deals with our Lewiston-Auburn real estate market are the words “MLS” and “MLS Listings”. First-time buyers and sellers can find the term confusing because it is used in so…

Cristina McBreairty | RE/MAX Allied | (207) 653-1604 94 Fair St, Lewiston, ME Well-maintained Oversized 4-Bedroom Ranch 4BR/2+1BA Single Family House offered at $189, 900 Year Built 1958 Sq Footage 2, 146 Bedrooms 4 Bathrooms 2 full, 1 partial…

Any informed Lewiston-Auburn homeowner (or future Lewiston-Auburn homeowner) is keenly aware of the national and regional real estate trends. It’s hard to avoid hearing about them, because the TV and print media headline them all the time…