Jackie Hawley's Real Estate Blog for Southeast MI

Oxford MI Home Sales- Trend or Anomaly? Trend! You can see from the charts below, the average sales price every month in 2013 beat the same month from the previous year.       When you compare 2012 to 2011 you can see the lines criss crossing, but 2012 prices were higher than 2011 more times than...

Oxford MI home sales - units, prices and total sales volume were up significantly (2013 over 2012). Unit sales in 2013 were up 16% from 2012. The average sales price was up 21% from 2012 and up 26% from 2011. Volume sales were up almost 22 million from 2012 and distressed sales were down signific...

It doesn’t exist. But that is too short of an answer to make an entire blog post! Unless you have an unlimited budget, and location is no object, your dream home really doesn’t exist outside of your head. The location for the dream home in my head changes often. Depending on how cold it is here. ...

What is the job of a buyer’s agent in Clarkston MI? Many Clarkston agents seem to have the idea that the primary job of a buyer’s agent is to get the Clarkston MI seller to come down on his asking price. The more you can get the seller down, the better you’ve done your job. NOT!! Here in Clarksto...

What is an All Sports Lake? Oakland County MI Real Estate Commonly Asked Questions To those of you who may live on a lake, this may sound like a silly question, but it is a question I get asked fairly often. Some want to know if they can water ski AND jet ski. I had one client who thought that th...

What is a Clarkston MI Site Condo? The difference between a site condo and a traditional platted sub are mostly technical. Back in the day, when Clarkston MI was growing like a weed, many developers were going the site condo route to develop their Clarkston MI subdivisions because it was much qui...

If you are trying to sell your Clarkston MI home in today’s real estate market you have probably read that it’s all location location location. Or possibly price, location and exposure. That last one is one third correct. It’s all about price. Crappy location? Location can always be compensated f...

Getting Your Lake Orion MI Home Ready for Sale We are not currently in a market where it is worth gutting your kitchen or baths before selling your Lake Orion MI house. Those things will make your house easier to sell, but dropping the price by the amount of the cost of a new kitchen or baths wou...

Getting Your Clarkston MI Home Ready for Sale We are not currently in a market where it is worth gutting your kitchen or baths before selling your Clarkston MI house. Those things will make your house easier to sell, but dropping the price by the amount of the cost of a new kitchen or baths would...

3900 Waterland Dr Metamora MI Lakefront Home for Sale- All Sports Lake Lapeer The best of all worlds! Secluded acreage on an all sports Lake Lapeer and horses allowed! And the property is splittable to boot! Almost 4 acres next door for sale for $75,000- great pasture land and close to the pole b...