Clint Tornow's (ctornow) Blog

I'm going to give you my link to my blog that I write on regularly. I've gotten some good feedback from you all and I encourage you to jump on and check it out!http://tornowrealestate.com/blog.aspx

Todays guest Blog is from EVP of the Realtors Association of South Central Wisconsin (RASCW), John Deininger "Results show the fifth best year ever for residential real estate sales in Dane County." Or, "Dane County sales--worst in five years". Pick your headline, since they appear to both be tru...

Here is what we're seeing in Dane County, WIFor more posts and information visit http://www.tornowrealestate.com/ Mortgage TypeTermRatePointsFixed Rates30 year  5.750%0   30 year 5.500%1   20 year5.625%  0 20 year5.375% 1  15 year 5.250% 0 15 year4.875% 1 Conventional ARM3/1 -30 year5.500% 0 5/1 ...

These are the number for Dane County, Madison, WI. Basically on the left you find a price range that you have a house listed for sale in then follow the chart to the right to see factual statistics of what is going on in the market. The column called 'months required to absorb inventory' is the f...

Follow the link to view properties for sale in Madison, Sun Prairie, and Stoughton Wisconsin. http://tornowrealestate.com/sales.aspx  Homes ranging from 167,000 - 800,000 and on the lake.

The Homes and Inventory Watch is showing a promising turn around in our current market. Homes in the 200,000-250,000 range are seeing about 1 month less time on the market than they did last year. Homes also ranging in the 350,000-500,000 seen the same amount of decrease. This is great! The amoun...

Here's an idea. You're trying to sell your home and have reduced the price once or twice already. You feel the price is where it should be but yet showings are still minimal and you have no action, no offers and you don't think it would be fair to reduce anymore because you are at or nearly at wh...

I've come across another simple marketing implementation that would cost you the seller nothing and may increase some traffic flow towards inquiring on your home more. Put a 100% financing sign in the yard. I have a very successful relationship with Cheryl Slezewski of Park Bank and working toget...

I've included this chart below because I believe it illustrates very clearly the National housing outlook. It breaks down the market and makes it clear to see what happened last year in comparison with this year and what NAR forecast for 2008. The very bottom category catches my eye the most beca...

I've added a very important new page to the site today. It's under the Home Staging tab and is called The 7 Deadly Home Staging Sins. I believe it is a very good piece and is worth taking a look at. Although it does not give explicit advice on how to stage your home specifically it does go over a...