Michael's Chesapeake Bay Regional Real Estate Blog

I am hesitantly optimisticThe ActiveRain Listing-Router Feature Your Listings, Get More Traffic and Get Paid to Participate.  On Tuesday October 28th, ActiveRain will be launching a new service called ‘Listing Router’.  As the name implies, it's ActiveRain's initial move into the Property Listing...

Kendal and I arrived at Ruth's Chris at 6:30 for our reservation. We were promptlyseated by the professional and attractive crew of hostesses. Within minuteswe were greeted by name by our server.  We ordered a bottle of wine from the impressive wine list. I selected a FrenchMeursault $60). After ...

John Knorr, senior vice president of Phillips Foods Inc. reports that Phillips Seafood will sell a portion of its waterfront Annapolis restaurant to a nonprofit and has received multiple other offers to buy the property. The National Sailing Hall of Fame is under contract to purchase the patio, r...

One of Anne Arundel County's biggest retail projects will open its doors on Sunday. Owings Mills-based Greenberg Gibbons Commercial Corp. is redeveloping the former Parole Plaza Mall to create a $500 million retail, office and residential redevelopment complex. The outdoor mall will include exten...

The following excerpt, directly from the Metropolitan Regional Information Systems, Inc. web site clearly defines the terms of the above referenced types of listings. Listing agents are putting themselves at grave financial risk by "offering" any type of compensation other than EXACTLY what they ...

I'm writing this list based on my own experiences dealing with Realtors® as both a consumer and someone that works with them on an every day basis.  These are my personal gripes about what I've experienced so far and reasons why I would never work with a Realtor® on a consumer level who falls int...

Buffett Becomes Vulture as HomeServices Seeks Deals (Update2) By Kathleen M. Howley Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Ron Peltier runs HomeServices of America Inc., the second-largest U.S. real estate brokerage, and unlike No. 1 NRT Inc., his company is making money in the worst housing slump since the Grea...

Visit my full service web site at www.CallMike.org Most people in the Chesapeake Bay Country are not aware that Champion Realty is the exclusive partner company for Homeservices of America in the Mid-Atlantic region. HomeServices of America is the second largest independent provider of real estat...

Visit my full service web site at www.CallMike.org Jon Coile, president and chief executive officer of Champion Realty, Inc recently announced that Champion Realty Mortgage, an affiliate of Wells Fargo Home Mortgage and a joint venture with Champion Realty Inc., will receive $125 million of mortg...

As we all know Real Estate is finite.  There will not be nay more built.  Waterfront property is even more finite.  It is also vital that we protect the water and marine life that make our waterfront property so valuable. Here is a reprint of the goals and purpose of the Critical Area Commission ...