According to a recent NAR survey, 73% of all buyers expect a 10% or more appreciation in the next 5 years. The survey asked 1004 buyers about their thoughts on their purchase. Here’s the highlights: 1 out of 8 buyers are planning on buying for investment. 25% of buyers are buying or plan to buy foreclosure (THIS MEANS THAT [...]

Question: Must the new house cost more than the old house? Answer: No. Thus, for example, individuals who move from a high cost area to a lower cost area who meet all eligibility requirements will qualify for the $6500 credit. Question: I am an existing homeowner. On October 25, 2009, I signed a contract to purchase [...]

If you were buying a home and rushing to close by Nov. 30th, you can now breathe a sigh of relief.  Let’s go over what’s happened and the rationale. First Time Home buyer tax credit of $8,000 extended to April 30th, 2010 – NEW WRINKLES If you are under contract by the 30th, you can still get [...]

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Over the next few weeks I’ll be covering how the Jarvis Team walks a buyer from being interesting in purchasing a home to the actual purchase.  After 7 years of helping buyers almost exclusively, we’ve seen that for most buyers the process is very similar. There are several steps. Along the way I’m going to include [...]

Got a lot of folks asking me a bunch of questions about the $8000 First Time Home buyer tax credit, so I thought I might try to answer it here. Only 2 Weeks?  I though it was until Dec 1st. Right! Unless you have cash, it’ll likely take your lender about 30 days to work through [...]

We’re back with a new addition of Celebrity Home Blogs. Remember, folks, these photos are public photos and the information is public. I’m posting this information for entertainment purposes only. No stalkers, please. On with the show! Josh Smith is one of my favorite Atlanta athletes. He’s got such upside to his [...]

This month we see that sales are rising, with the same trends as before. The majority of homes are still categorized as “distressed.” First Time homebuyers only make up 50% of the sales, so other buyers are out there right now due to the low rates. Also worth noting is that the [...]

Sales are up, way up by 7% and interest rates are low, however, there’s still a lot of inventory. Buying a home and moving quickly now are key if you are wanting to capitalize on the first time home buyer credit.

As a Relocation expert for over 7 years I have always tracked where folks from other states move to and county growth etc. Outside local moves from say Decatur to Lawrenceville which make up the majority of the buyers in Gwinnett County, moves from Florida, New York and California have always topped the [...]

Thomas Dimitroff is the Atlanta Falcons GM and is a welcome addition to the Atlanta scene.  Since arriving, the Falcons have not only become winners, but every move he makes seems to have genius written all over it. The Atlanta Falcons website has this to say about him: An 18-year player personnel veteran, Dimitroff comes to Atlanta [...]

Keller Williams Realty wins the JD Power & Associates award for the second straight year. Mark Willis, CEO lifts the trophy up!

It’s not just our nation that has seen a surge in prices and sales, but our State has as well! Areas that are usually considered declining, such as Lawrenceville 30044, have had a huge increase almost to a median price of $200K! That’s back to what it was 3 years ago. [...]

The state’s largest and arguably best school system woke up this morning with no good news.  Meanwhile, everyone who owns a home in the county breathed a sigh of relief. The county was looking at raising real estate taxes (which account for 90% of the income) to help keep the schools out of the red. The county [...]

It’s official, The Jarvis Team is now the #1 Short Sale agent in Gwinnett County. With the market in cities like Lawrenceville where up to 80% of the market is REO or Short Sales.  We’re very proud of this accomplishment as we are helping people avoid foreclosure and the extra penalties that come with [...]

So you are home from work relaxing watching re-runs of Friends and suddenly your front door is kicked open and a big burly man with a gun comes in, points the gun at you and claims that he’s the sheriff. Sound like something out of the show COPS or maybe a move starring Johnny Depp, but [...]

Are you ready to receive the up to $50,000 dollars that are available to you to buy a home?!  This is free money! I sent an e-mail out  earlier and got an overwhelming response, so much so that we weren’t  able to contain all the people hitting the server.  Now we’ve rebuilt it and it’s ready for your [...]

You might have read the headline and thought, oh no!  This is another one of those funky loans that change over time.  Nope.  It’s not a special loan, it’s another way to think about the $8,000 tax credit.  If you take a $125,000 home’s payment of roughly $750.00 a month at 6% interest rate (fixed [...]