Real Estate Search tools
Posted by Cary_Agent
If you haven’t ever visited Zillow.com or haven’t been buy recently, you should take another look. This site has evolved into a very usefull home search tool.
This is a must have in your arsenal of house hunting tools. On first perusal of the site, you’ll appreciated the satellite images of the neighborhood you direct it to. The home value estimates on top of each roof top are quick handy as well.
But this is just half of the impressive features of this site, so don’t surf away before getting the detail on a particular home. In the screen shot below, you will see the close up satellite image of the home you are interested in.
You can rotate the image, thus seeing all four sides of a partucular property.
Tips for Buying Homes in a Tight Market
Posted by Cary_Agent
Cary , NC has some markets that are fairly tight, especially in the 180k to 300k price range. Following a few easy tips will help to ensure that you will get your dream home, even in the tight market of today. These tips include:
• Before you starting looking for homes, get pre-qualified for a mortgage. This way you will be able to make a firm commitment to buy the home making your offer more desirable. 
• Find out first about new listings that come on the market by staying in close contact with your Cary real estate agent. Be ready to go see the house on the first day that it is being shown.
• Look on the Internet, in newspapers, and drive by the neighborhood of your choice to keep on top of new listings yourself.
• Spend time in advance deciding what you do and do not want so that when you find the home of your dreams you will be ready to make an offer.
• Make your bid realistic and competitive. Just as you wouldn’t want to bid at the top of your budget, you don’t want to go too low either and lose out on a prospective home.
• Keep your bid as desirable as possible by keeping contingencies to a minimum. Restrictions such as selling your home before the closing or delaying closing until a certain date will make your offer unappealing to the seller. If your house does not sell on time then talk to your lender about getting a bridge loan to cover both mortgages until it sells.
• Don’t get caught up in the competition of buying your new home. You shouldn’t buy just anything just because it is a good deal. Don’t neglect important aspects of home buying such as inspections to make your offer more attractive.
Buyer tipsTownhomes in Cary, NC
Posted by Cary_Agent
Considering a Townhouse in Cary, North Carolina? Good choice! Cary enjoys slow but steady property appreciation. While the east and west coasts have been on a roller coaster ride, Cary’s home values have steadily increased around 3 to 8 percent per year for the 5 years.
Cary is located in Wake County, which is currently on of the 10th fastest growing counting in the United States. Many Cary residents work at the ever growing Research Triangle Park and enjoy Wake County’s superb school system.
As of this writing, there are 129 Townhouses currently on the market. Average price is 262,000 and averaging 1985 sqft. Townhouses are currently averaging 98 days on the market.
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