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Real Estate Agent - TerryMcDonaldRealEstate.com, LLC
I keep an eye on the Charlotte real estate market: its communities, its economy and the local micro markets.
RECENT BLOG POSTS
Zip 28277, South Charlotte , is having a sturdy if not all together pretty 2007. Prices are up, the number of sales are way down, and expired listings went through the roof. 28277 is Charlotte's 2nd highest income zip code, and includes neighborhoods like Providence Country Club, Ballantyne Count...
08/13/2007
So we heard last month that the nationwide slowdown in housing has finally caught up with Charlotte in the form of fewer sales in June, with prices (thankfully) and year to date numbers still holding strong. Over the next 2 weeks I'll be posting about various South Charlotte Zip Codes to see how ...
08/12/2007
I visited the Palisades on Lake Wylie last week in the fastest growing corridor of South Charlotte and came away impressed.  Despite the nationwide slowdown, Charlotte real estate is holding its own, or slightly advancing on the year, and the Palisades in Charlotte at Lake Wylie, almost a resort ...
08/06/2007
This past weekend (4/27-29), Charlotte welcomed kayakers from all over the US and Canada to compete for their nation's World teams, preliminary events to the Beijing Olympics in 2008. The Whitewater Center, a first in the US, uses movable rocks, multiple courses, a conveyor to take your kayak or ...
04/30/2007
I wanted to share the best free software I've discovered in a long time, embeddable fast loading slide shows from www.Slide.com. I use it all the time on my sites, links in my e-mails, for distance research and on my websites.  Here is how it works. I take my pictures, download them to my compute...
04/26/2007
Charlotte Real Estate Appreciation Report, Providence Plantation, South Charlotte, NC, 4/26/07      I just completed a study of popular Providence Plantation for a client, comparing the sales of 3700 square feet to 4400 square feet homes in the last 12 months, with the same search criteria from 3...
04/26/2007
Charlotte Waterfront, Charlotte Real Estate Best Deal in Charlotte, NC- Not Kidding! River Front- On the Water 15 Minutes to the airport, 20 minutes to Uptown Charlotte, In Mt Holly New, Award Winning Floorplan, 2469 sf house for $389,000 On the Catawba River, clear sail to Lake Wylie 9' ceilings...
04/24/2007
Imagine about 100 years ago being a horse and buggy manufacturer when you saw this loud noisy carriage like thing riding along without a horse...In ten years the buggy manufacturers were gone. Well, real estate is changing in the same dramatic fashion. Just a few years ago, the first, second and ...
04/16/2007
Charlotte, NC Home Prices Up Over 7% First Quarter 2007 While most of the country worries about falling prices in real estate, a few markets have been unaffected by the non stop Bubble talk. No amount of doom, gloom or rising interest rates have slowed the growth in Charlotte, NC. Good news trave...
04/14/2007
It seems you can't turn on CNBC, CNN or any of the the major news outlets without hearing about the recession, no depression in real estate.  I've two major beefs with this... first, they act as if there is one Real Estate market for the country, like there is one stock market, "Stocks fell today...
03/15/2007
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Charlotte NC- A relocated northerner came to build a life in Charlotte NC- I now try to preserve its Southern charm and move it into the future, at CharlotteCoomunitiesOnline. At Terry McDonald Real Estate I tackle the traditional real estate problems and issues buying and selling homes- including market conditions, national market conditions, and the new home/custom home industry.