Sylvie Shurgot Real Estate Blog

If you haven't been involved in a real estate transaction over the past 3 or 4 years, you may not know about buyer representation.  In the past, a listing agent represented only the seller, and the buyer had no representation.  Nowadays, buyers can have their own real estate consultant to protect...

On Thursday after having seen my property appraisal for 2008, I accessed the Multiple Listings Service (MLS) and confirmed the same information I've been working with for quite some time now: the appraisal district's data is blatantly inaccurate.  I'm a REALTOR® and a trained statistician.  Here'...

Have you had few or no showings on your property?  You might want to verify the following information with your listing agent.  If your house is listed with the wrong price or in the wrong area, I won't be able to find you.  Your house might be my client's dream home, and I can't find you.  MLS i...

 # listed# sold% soldAvg asked (SP)Avg sale price (LP)SP/LPDays on Market         200810,0463,99539.77%$185,820.00 $178,585.00 96.11%87         200710,3665,02448.47%$179,576.00 $174,994.00 97.45%70         20068,8905,23058.83%$165,685.00 $162,046.00 97.80%68         20058,4474,49353.19%$147,226.0...

Here are the real estate statistics for March as far back as MLS makes available.  Check this blog regularly as I will comtinue to post statistics for months, quarters, and years.  The nembers are very telling and useful in analysing what's happening in a market.  Fell free to contact me in you h...

Here are some numbers for the sale of single-family residential homes in our area for the month of February 2005 to 2008.Homes ListedHomes Sold% SoldAVG List Price AVG Sale PriceRatio20083,0371,07435.36184,258177,48796.3220073,1161,56850.32183,026178,42797.4920062,4891,55762.56165,250161,73897.87...

Hello everyone,I'm Sylvie and I just joined your group.  I didn't see anyone from TX or San Antonio in the group and I just wanted to say I'm here!  We're a big military city, so I'm a little surprised there aren't more Texans or San Antonians on the list.I'm a REALTOR (R) and loan officer.  I've...

When I'm acting as a buyer representative, I always take one important step in my search for the perfect property: I try to find out if the neighborhood has major pollution or other environmental problems.  You can do this too by going to this website: http://www.scorecard.org/  I find it best to...

 You always hear that at a 7% interest rate your money doubles every 10 years.  At 10 %, your money doubles in 7 years.  But what about money earning 5% or 6% interest per year?  The calculation is very simple if you have a calculator with an ln key: enter ln(2)/0.05 for 5% or ln(2)/0.06 for a 6%...

     I tasted  Gene Griesemer's goat cheese at the Grey Forest Farmers Market last spring.  After years of eating the disappointing store-bought product, Gene's cheese was so refreshingly natural and delicious that I drove all the way to West Wind Dairy Goats  in Seguin to buy more!            Ge...