When it comes to Hagerstown’s residential real estate outlook, some truisms say it all: “Strike while the iron is hot!” “The early bird gets the worm!” “Time and tide waits for no man…” Sometimes those hoary old clichés have survived because their wisdom doesn’t ever change — and right now, some hard facts and figures may make these more relevant than usual. Hagerstown real estate watchers, buoyed by last Tuesday’s stock market jump (a reaction to the bullish real estate statistics), were also digesting The National Association of Realtors®’ latest report: it carried more cheerful news about the expanding market for existing-home sales. Final numbers for April showed sales moving at the highest pace since November of 2009, which was a single month that spiked due to the home-buyer tax c... 06/03/2013

If you’ve come across the term "zombie foreclosures" in recent months, it wasn’t referring to voodoo parlors whose priests couldn’t pay the mortgage. Not exactly dead, but not exactly alive, they are properties stuck in a kind of zombie-like limbo. They are homes that have been abandoned by their former owners at some point before foreclosure. Now they are sitting there, accumulating ongoing taxes, liens, and gradual deterioration while the bank decides what to do (or not do) about them. According to RealtyTrac, there are probably 302,000 "zombies” nationwide, so the odds are, some are going to be here. Whenever you search for bank owned properties in Hagerstown, keep an eye out for the zombies. Because the legal owner has moved on, he or she is likely to be highly motivated to sell via... 05/28/2013

Black Rock Estates Hagerstown Maryland Black Rock Estates is an upscale single family community in Hagerstown Maryland featuring spacious, all brick homes and located across from the Black Rock Golf Course   Sold single family homes in the last 6 months (from 7-6-2012) in Black Rock Estates     Active or under contract single family homes           Looking to buy or sell contact your Black Rock Estates expert now at 240-344-5538     Search homes for sale     Hagerstown Real Estate See more of my blogs *Compilation is based upon public information and is not intended to suggest or infer that the sales associate or broker was actually involved in the listing or sale of the properties included in the compilation.  11/01/2012