ftlauderdale homes: Wilton Manors Real Estate
- 05/03/10 12:42 PM
It was 2004 that the New York Times ran a story called "A Gay Boom Town Mainstream and Less the Cliche", it was the height of the South Florida Real Estate boom and a little City called Wilton Manors was being recognized in the New York Times as one of the gayest cities in America. A 2 square mile island , with approximately 13,000 people where real estate prices followed the path of total gentrification. Where homes could once be bought for $80,000, they were easily bringing $300,000 in 2004. Now that the conversation has turned to a National Real Estate … (0 comments)
ftlauderdale homes: Appraisers and the Chicken Little Syndrome
- 04/04/10 03:43 AM
Chicken Little is really a story about many of today's appraisers, please notice I did not say all. I recently put a home on the market in Fort Lauderdale. The house had three offers the first three weeks and now is under contract for the second time, all offers were within $10,000 of the $189,000 asking price. This means as a Realtor I priced it correctly, the people who have a vote, the agents who show it, and the buyers who make offers all gave me a thumbs up. The area of Fort Lauderdale that the home is in, is a solid neighborhood where … (5 comments)
ftlauderdale homes: Fountains on Ocean Boulevard - Fort Lauderdale - Florida
- 03/06/10 11:51 PM
When buying a Fort Lauderdale Condominium a buyer really needs to look at every aspect of the property to make it meets their needs now and into the future. They need to look at the unit, the building, how it exsists today, how it is taken care of, is the budget funded to take care of it into the future. Was the building designed in a way that makes in manageable. Are the views safe from further construction. It is like a giant balance sheet and as long as it comes back with more positives than negatives you may have found the … (0 comments)
ftlauderdale homes: The Tides at Bridgside Square
- 03/06/10 01:14 AM
Over the last few years the real estate market can be viewed as the perfect storm. Bad loans started to surface, too many sellers became landlords and investors assuming the market could only go up, and the economy tanked, these and numerous other occurrences, not to forget 9/11 simply changed the world as we knew it and along with it our real estate markets. No real estate was excluded from this price correction. Sorry even you had the most special kitchen cabinets in the world chances are your home went down in value as well. However, as we enter a new … (1 comments)
It was 2004 that the New York Times ran a story called "A Gay Boom Town Mainstream and Less the Cliche", it was the height of the South Florida Real Estate boom and a little City called Wilton Manors was being recognized in the New York Times as one of the gayest cities in America. A 2 square mile island , with approximately 13,000 people where real estate prices followed the path of total gentrification. Where homes could once be bought for $80,000, they were easily bringing $300,000 in 2004. Now that the conversation has turned to a National Real Estate … (0 comments)
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