Has your home listing been on the market for months without the kind of action you were expecting? What to do? Hang around the real estate business long enough and you get the idea that sellers and their agents have only one tool in their tool kit--a big hammer called 'Price'. No offers? BAM!
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10/18/2013
Halloween Home Maintenance: Spooky Sounds and Strange Smells Are you haunted by strange noises and weird odors? With the proper maintenance, you’ve got more than a ghost of a chance to rest easy. Read Visit houselogic.com for more articles like this. Copyright 2013 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REAL
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10/18/2013
Search current inventory of Homes for sale – Chambersburg area Listing Details 5179 Greenvillage Rd, Chambersburg 17202 Price: $199,000MLS number: FL8121662Bedrooms: 3Bathrooms: 2Square Footage - finished space on 2 levels - 2120 Call/text Peter Gibaud at 717-496-1840 to see if this property is s
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09/28/2013
Market summary – August 2013 Sales in August jumped up nearly a third from a year ago, but what this means going forward is unclear. One month’s results in a small market—or even a big market—do not a trend make. Indeed, unit sales have been up most months in 2013 from the year earlier, but sales
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09/17/2013
Flood insurance rates are set to spike up beginning on October 31, 2013. Does everybody who lives near a stream or in a low-lying area know this is coming? If your reaction is "?!?" as ours was, at least you can educate yourself, starting with Barbara-Jo Roberts' post below and continuing with re
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08/30/2013
How are property taxes figured in Franklin County, Pennsylvania? Here's a primer. Property taxes are levied in two pieces, ‘local’ and ‘school’. (MRIS, our multiple listing system, or MLS, does not have fields labeled as such, so the school tax is in the ‘special tax assessment’ field.) The local
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08/16/2013
Where has the summer gone? In two weeks, school starts up again. In July, a sudden increase in mortgage rates caught the real estate world by surprise. Other than that, the homes market in Franklin County, Pennsylvania continued its march forward, with unit sales up nearly 10% from July 2012. Ave
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08/12/2013
Market summary – June 2013 At the mid-point of this recovery year, we’d hope to see the homeownership train chugging along the track toward a stronger market - for those selling, at least. Well, let’s see: In Franklin County, the average and median prices of homes sold in were up in June from the
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07/16/2013
INTEREST RATES FOR HOME LOANS have trended better three of the first four days of this week, and they probably would have trended better yesterday had the speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Benjamin Bernanke occurred before the markets closed. Government-guaranteed loans (FHA, USDA, VA) for well
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07/12/2013
Home mortgage interest rates this week slid down a bit from the rapid run-up of the last several weeks, but they were trending higher this morning. The stock market’s loss of nearly 115 points on the Dow Jones average (to 14,910 at the close) may cause rates to moderate. Don’t bet on it, though
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06/28/2013
