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Karen Goodman

Marketing Homes for Sale ~ Focus on Lifetstyle

by Karen Goodman on March 31, 2012

in Sellers

When I first started marketing homes, I did what so many agents do. I used the marketing remarks section of the MLS to list as many features as I could squeeze into the 1000 character limit. It wasn’t long before I realized I was missing the point. Buyers don’t buy homes based on the checklist [...]

   

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Over the last few years, condo sales have been harder hit than home sales. In 2011, only 12% of the sales in St. Louis City, St. Louis County and St. Charles County were condos. With 9 in 10 buyers choosing homes instead of condos, only the best priced condos sell. 2011 Condo Sales by Price [...]

   

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We’ve been very busy at Arch City Homes. We currently have 7 properties under contract for our clients and have an offer we are working on today for a house we haven’t even gotten onto the market yet. It’s been a busy few months. We started doing video reviews a little while ago, so you [...]

   

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For the last 3 years, I have reported that the majority of buyers were choosing lower priced homes and there was little demand in higher price ranges. Even with daily bad economic news, people continued to buy homes over the last few years. However, buyers concerned about the economy clearly made conservative spending choices. Homes [...]

   

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Judy Brown and Karen Goodman – 6 year winners Seven years ago, St. Louis Magazine started working with Crescendo Business Services to survey St. Louis home buyers, lenders and title company professionals to identify the best real estate agents in town. While there are many different ways to judge who are the best agents in [...]

   

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The real estate market follows the basic principles of supply and demand. In order to know if the real estate market is a seller’s market or a buyer’s market, you need to know how many homes are on the market for every home that is purchased. A balanced real estate market has about 6 months [...]

   

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