Annette Sievert's Real Estate Blog

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A VERY HAPPY, HEALTHY, AND PROSPEROUS 2012 to all my fellow Active Rainers and my clients, colleagues and friends... Annette  

LIST YOUR HOUSE RIGHT NOW! Presenting your property at or right after Christmas has a lot of advantages. 1.     Less competition: because a lot of sellers withdraw for the holidays or are not listing until the New Year there are only a handful of new listings, if one of the is your home, it gets ...

http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/15/real_estate/mortgage_rates/?hpt=hp_t1 If you are in the market for a home in Corvallis, OR or anywhere else where you experiences extremely reasonable home prices, NOW is the time to act. I just got an offer accepted that will allow the buyer to live in a nearly 30...

Have invested less in your business lately? Not earning enough to pay for extra services? Here you are caught in a downward spiral, the CATCH 22 of Real Estate!   My Dad, a very successful RE developer, was nearly caught in it in the early 80s in Germany, when all trends went to offer homes cheap...

    June 2011 July 2011 August 2011 September 2011 October 2011 November 2011 Avg. Sales Price $276,624 $275,707 $268,395 $270,390 $270,769 $270,541 Avg. Price Per Sq. Ft. $148 $147 $146 $147 $146 $146 Avg. Days On Market 132 128 128 132 129 159 Currently Active 374 360 333 315 275 253

    June 2011 July 2011 August 2011 September 2011 October 2011 November 2011 Avg. List Price $243,658 $242,305 $236,664 $233,751 $227,214 $221,748 Avg. Price Per Sq. Ft. $117 $116 $115 $114 $112 $111 Avg. Days On Market 155 156 163 163 161 157 Currently Active 101 96 92 98 88 84

    June 2011 July 2011 August 2011 September 2011 October 2011 November 2011 Avg. List Price $150,372 $150,764 $149,608 $150,483 $151,263 $152,983 Avg. Price Per Sq. Ft. $98 $98 $97 $99 $98 $98 Avg. Days On Market 141 139 135 134 134 138 Currently Active 321 323 283 265 254 248

    June 2011 July 2011 August 2011 September 2011 October 2011 November 2011 Avg. List Price $142,050 $137,109 $135,211 $137,589 $137,369 $137,623 Avg. Price Per Sq. Ft. $89 $89 $88 $89 $90 $89 Avg. Days On Market 151 153 155 156 153 151 Currently Active 233 240 260 245 222 220  

The First Time Home Buyers Credit, remember that one? Last year it created a little frenzy. Everybody quickly wanted in on the tax credit and for a short time eligible properties flew off the shelf. But in hindsight (and with a little thinking in foresight) this was again nothing else than a mark...

  I had a great year! WE had a great year! 2011 was (and still is) a very successful year for us. My husband’s practice is well established and he enjoys his patients very much. He has arrived and loves his work.   I am back to top performing and have reached my 2011 production goal in October, n...