A basic concept in marketing anything is having an item appeal to the most amount of people possible. This concept also applies to selling your Louisville home. The more appealing it is to the market as a whole, the faster it will sell.
Source: Trulia American Dream survey Under the heading Optimistic Signs of Long-Term Housing Demand comes this infographic that shows Home Ownership leads the way with 57% to the question, "What…
“Well surprise, surpise!” -Gomer Pyle
If I’m dating myself with that quote, please forgive me. (Or, if you find my taste in sitcoms uncivilized, I completely agree.)
Nobody likes taxes. Well, almost nobody… there is this loopy bird who wants Obama to raise his taxes. But for the remaining 99.999% of us, lower taxes is a good thing. If tax credits still exist for certain projects, which ones are they? No fear, let’s check them out!
The big news in Louisville these days is the shutdown of the Sherman Minton Bridge, or what a creative mind termed Shermageddon. You see, because the politicians have feuded with East End money for literally decades about building the obviously logical East End bridge, the importance of the currently overburdened bridges has gone up. Way up!
Don’t forget to visit The Designers Show House if you haven’t yet! The annual event, sponsored by Bellarmine Women’s Council to benefit the University’s Student Aid Fund, is at Stonecote Estate, 1005 Alta Vista, off Lexington Rd. It’s a great place to get ideas for furniture, paint colors and other local decorating trends.
I had a chance to sit down and chat with Rob Benefiel, owner of Certified Comfort to learn more about his company and gain some insight into the best ways to make sure that your Louisville home is cool in the Summer and warm in the Winter.
If you are purchasing Louisville real estate, or are putting your property up for sale, you may not understand how square footage is calculated in the home. A real estate agent will be calculating the square footage for you if you’re selling your home, and there are some parts of the house that may not be included in the calculations.
All we hear from news sources these days is the horrible condition of the housing market. They’re not wrong. The number of homes sold so far this year is acres behind 2010 and likely to arrive at 2009 levels.
Pine Valley Estates (once merely Pine Valley) is a still-growing community that began in 2001 and continues to be a great spot for new construction. Just outside of Jeffersontown, Pine Valley Estates is located off Easum Road between Old Heady Road and Chenoweth Run Road (see map). Nearby neighborhoods include Stone Lakes, Saratoga Woods, and the newer Saratoga Springs and Bridges of Razor Creek. Still situated in a rural part of Jefferson County but inside the Gene Snyder Expressway and close to expressways, shopping, and more.
It’s been widely reported that shady lending practices, greedy borrowers, and a general lack of wisdom (if not sneaky partisan policies) coming from our elected officials is what brought the housing crisis upon us.
I wrote a piece a couple of weeks back called, My Home Is Dropping in Value? In the piece, I pointed to data that showed while the National home value average dropped about 25% since the housing decline, Louisville homes actually gained 1.5%. I think it’s important that people know the truth about their home’s value.
(more…)Yesterday, Freddie Mac issued a press release called August 2011 U. S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook. I've excerpted the primary message below. MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --…
The Louisville Home Builders Association is putting on a Tour of Remodeled Homes which starts today. From noon to 6 pm on August 13th and 14th, the tour price is…
I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase, “Perception is reality”. Take the value of brands, for example. People’s perception of Tylenol as a safe, pain-reducing medicine prior to 1982 was sky-high. It was the world’s top seller, for crying out loud. Then reports surfaced that a woman died from cyanide poisoning from taking Tylenol.
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