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By Nina Hollander, Broker, Your Greater Charlotte Real Estate Broker
(Coldwell Banker Realty)
Test Your Irish Knowledge! 🍀🌈🍀💰How Much Do You Know About St. Patrick's Day?19 St. Patrick’s Day Fun Facts You Might Not Know... St. Patrick's Day -- a day when everyone is a little bit Irish! But St. Patrick’s Day is more than just shamrocks, leprechauns 🍀🧑‍🎤, and wearing green—it’s a holiday filled with rich history, surprising traditions, and fascinating myths. Celebrated on March 17th, this Irish holiday honors St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, but there’s so much more to the story than you might think. From the truth about St. Patrick himself, to the history of St. Patrick's Day parades, to why people wear green on St. Patrick's Day, to how much money Americans will spend celebrating St. Patrick's Day, these 19 fun facts will test your knowledge and maybe even teach you som...
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By Nina Hollander, Broker, Your Greater Charlotte Real Estate Broker
(Coldwell Banker Realty)
 HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY ☘️ FROM NINA HOLLANDER IN CHARLOTTE, NCOne of the most cherished aspects of Irish folklore is the tradition of blessings—words of wisdom passed down through generations, offering good fortune, happiness, and protection. Whether spoken over a gathering of friends, written in a heartfelt card, or simply reflected upon in quiet moments, Irish blessings capture the spirit of kindness and hope. In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, here are three beautiful Irish blessings to fill your day with luck, love, and laughter. ☘️ "May love and laughter light your days,and warm your heart and home.May good and faithful friends be yours,wherever you may roam.May peace and plenty bless your worldwith joy that long endures.May all life’s passing seasonsbring the best to you and yours!"...
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By Nina Hollander, Broker, Your Greater Charlotte Real Estate Broker
(Coldwell Banker Realty)
🍀Should You Depend On "The Luck Of The Irish" To Sell Your Greater Charlotte Home?  🏡 🍀 St. Patrick's Day Is Almost Here. But Even On St. Patrick's Day, Selling Your Home At Top Dollar Will Require More Than "The Luck of the Irish."  🏡 🍀 You DON'T Need Luck To Sell Your Greater Charlotte Area Home... You Just Need Nina Hollander with Coldwell Banker Realty!  🏡  "Go Out The Way You Came In"Going out the way you came in is an old Irish superstition. Doors are often regarded as symbols of transition. As such, according to this particular superstition, all visitors (including potential buyers who are viewing your home), should be invited to exit through the same door that they entered. Whether you believe in old superstitions or not, it takes more than a superstition or luck to sell your ho...
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By Nina Hollander, Broker, Your Greater Charlotte Real Estate Broker
(Coldwell Banker Realty)
 NINA HOLLANDER A TOP 100 COLDWELL BANKER REALTY SALES ASSOCIATE IN THE CAROLINAS I'm honored to be ranked #31 in Coldwell Banker Realty's Top 100 sales associates out of 1,600+ agents in North and South Carolina for gross commissions generated in February 2025. My thanks to all my loyal clients who've continued to support my business year in and year out since 1999 with their business and referrals.   "You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day." ... Jeffrey Gitomer It can't be said often enough: I'm beyond grateful to have the most loyal and supportive clients any Realtor® would be fortunate to have! Where would we Realtors® be without our loyal clients who support our business with their referrals and repeat business? So thank you, all! "You can't buy clients. You e...
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By Joan Inglis, Master Accredited Staging Professional, Home Staging, Model Merchandising, Interior Design
(Carolina Spaces, LLC www.CarolinaSpaces.com)
Met some good folks at the REALTOR's Expo.  Bidding on 2 houses - value $3 million +.  In between - real estate, real estate, real estate.  Working with a buyer who lost out on her preferred lot.  Trying to find her a solution.  Making out my list and completing my staging bid.
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By Chuck Webb
(Wilkinson & Associates)
 Source: HomeServices Lending Market Update "I'M MELTING! MELTING! OH, WHAT A WORLD, WHAT A WORLD..." ...Wicked Witch of the West, Wizard of Oz 1939 Well, the Wicked Witch certainly knew a thing or two about meltdowns.  The headlines are now full of news from the mortgage and real estate front of a different type of meltdown...and this time, the "subprime meltdown" is taking center stage. What exactly is going on, and what does it mean to you? A "subprime" home loan is a loan where the client has some significant credit issues, or was otherwise unable to qualify for a standard, conventional loan. Due to the fact that these loans tend to be quite risky for the lender...they also bear higher interest rates to match, as well as often being adjustable rates that likely have recently hiked s...
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By Joan Inglis, Master Accredited Staging Professional, Home Staging, Model Merchandising, Interior Design
(Carolina Spaces, LLC www.CarolinaSpaces.com)
Spent the entire day working on marketing materials for the CMLS Expo.  Everything had to be redone because I ended my informal business partnership.  Dropped everything off at the printer and shopped for a few business items.  I need to get my taxes done so I can get my refund!  I also need to get my home staging Web site active.  I guess I need to add more info to this post so I can get credit and move up on the page list.  I posted one message that got no credit because it was under 80 words.  Does anyone know how to add pictures to the home pages here?  I'm not totally computer literate.  But I know how to do what I need to do.   
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By Joan Inglis, Master Accredited Staging Professional, Home Staging, Model Merchandising, Interior Design
(Carolina Spaces, LLC www.CarolinaSpaces.com)
Presented bid on Lake Norman house.  We'll see what happens.  Spent most of the day redoing all my marketing stuff and prepping for the CMLS REALTOR Expo.  I will be in booth 128.  Drop by!  I find that most fellow REALTORS like it that I am licensed in SC/NC and member of Piedmont and CMLS.  I have the Supra, the background check and I don't need babysat.  What are your thoughts?  I've come across a few who seem paranoid that I'm trying to steal their listing.  I worked too hard to pass my test to put my license in jeopardy!  When I am staging, I wear the hat of a home stager only. 
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By Chuck Webb
(Wilkinson & Associates)
Source: Charlotte Business Journal - March 9, 2007The McAlpine Group is drawing plans for a $70 million, 130-unit townhome project in south Charlotte, hoping to capitalize on the area's rapid growth. The unnamed project, proposed for an 18-acre site at Providence Road West and Old Ardrey Kell Road, will feature a range of luxury models starting in the $400,000s for about 3,000 square feet. The site's proximity to U.S. Highway 521 and Providence Road puts it in the middle of one of Charlotte's major growth centers, says Lindsey McAlpine, company owner. Ballantyne, in particular, has changed the character of south Charlotte from distant suburb to urban hub, he adds. "That area is very attractive to empty-nesters as a high-end townhome market because of the amenities at Ballantyne and the ...
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By Joan Inglis, Master Accredited Staging Professional, Home Staging, Model Merchandising, Interior Design
(Carolina Spaces, LLC www.CarolinaSpaces.com)
Huge day!  Dropped my business partner - good thing I held off making it legal even though I've been pressured to for months.  I am free to be me and carry out my vision.  After seeing the work ethics, etc. I decided I didn't want my name or my company's name to be associated with this person!!  Also today I am preparing a bid on a property in Mooresville. 
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By Joan Inglis, Master Accredited Staging Professional, Home Staging, Model Merchandising, Interior Design
(Carolina Spaces, LLC www.CarolinaSpaces.com)
Put finishing touches on Tippah Ave. home in Charlotte before the open house/block party.  Used problem solving to replace contracted deck furniture with broken glass at the very last minute.  Was too tired to hold my own open house for one of my listings.  Appointment tomorrow for staging another vacant in Lake Norman.  
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By Joan Inglis, Master Accredited Staging Professional, Home Staging, Model Merchandising, Interior Design
(Carolina Spaces, LLC www.CarolinaSpaces.com)
I was too busy to post yesterday.  I was so worn out from moving furnishings into a vacant house, that I went to bed at 9.  Today was the fun part - decorating the house.  It was still a lot of work, but fun.  I've moved a few times myself, and never have I finished a house in a day.  I designed five rooms.  Tomorrow, I'll take pictures in the morning before open house.  I have my own open house to hold in the afternoon, then an appointment for interior design.  Mon. I have an appointment to stage a vacant house in a Lake Norman community.   
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The Charlotte Metro area is one of the few exceptions to the current national downward trend in Real Estate . While in most major markets the sale price on new homes has stagnated, or even decreased, Charlotte is still experiencing an increase of 8% or more. In some communities much more. Growth is the word for all areas of the Metro Charlotte with over 75,000 net newcomers per year.  Many of the new residents are relocating  from the Northeast and the West to escape the high taxes and also from the Gulf and Atlantic to the Hurricanes and high Insurance Rates. The only concern to the Charlotte Real Estate market may be the inability of buyers to sell their old homes  to relocate here.
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By Joan Inglis, Master Accredited Staging Professional, Home Staging, Model Merchandising, Interior Design
(Carolina Spaces, LLC www.CarolinaSpaces.com)
It's 11:30 p.m. and I'm trying to unwind.  It's been another 16-hour day.  We're staging a vacant home in Charlotte.  I've started other businesses in the past, but I've never worked this long or hard at them - probably because my children were young and I wore too many hats.  It was a last minute request on Monday to have the house completed for a reception on Sun.  Drove to Charlotte early, spent hours planning our design.  Drove to Rock Hill and met with our marketing consultant.  In between - phone calls, phone calls, phone calls.  Drove back to Charlotte to shop until we dropped.  Drove home.  Huge day tomorrow packing up another house to shift inventory.  Night all....   
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By Frank Pixley
(Southern Winds Realty)
If any of you have been to southernwinds.com lately, you will notice we now provide Zillow content on our site.  While many of my competitors might think of this as controversial, we felt Zillow's overall popularity was hard to ignore.  Over the past year depending on what publication you read, Zillow�s popularity ranking was anywhere from the top ten to top three most visited sites on the web. Why the popularity?  Founders Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink famed with their success of  Expedia.com, tapped an industry that affects everyone� Real Estate.  If you ever invested in the stock market, it was always exciting to check how your investments were doing everyday.  Zillow wants to bring that concept to the Real Estate industry through their Zestimate model and comparable sales reports.   T...
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By Michael McNulty
(RE/MAX PROS)
Mike, Thanks for the great job on the purchase of my new home, jI just wish all agents worked as hard as the both of you and Carolyn, I have lived all over the world and purchased many homes.Again Thank the both of you, all of my friends will use the both of you. Carl Fisher
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By Chuck Webb
(Wilkinson & Associates)
Source: Investment RichesCharlotte is a city of quiet southern charm with an abundance of beautiful tall tress, mixed with big city entertainment. Charlotte boasts a cost of living 3% BELOW the national average and a median household income 11.8% ABOVE. The city currently stands as the second largest banking center in the United States. Their five professional sports teams (Panthers, Bobcats, Checkers, Eagles and Knights) have dramatically increased the city's visibility across the nation as well as Lowe's Motor Speedway which is the home base for the area's NASCAR competition.Overseas flights from the international airport have made Charlotte a more diverse city, as it continues to attract more foreign firms and trade opportunities. People from around the United States and the world ha...
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By Virginia Halter, ABR, CDPE, CRS, GREEN, SFR, SRES
(RE/MAX Signature Properties)
As a REALTOR I stay on top of how the market is progressing.  As a Harrisburg resident, I pay particular attention to the market here.  I wanted to take a minute to recap the residential real estate activity in Harrisburg over 2006 and what is happening now in 2007.. In 2006, Harrisburg had 352 single family homes sold for an average of $272,607 sale price.  As an indication of our growth, 167 of those residences were new construction.  That is 47.5%!!  This is why I am constantly telling my sellers that their biggest competition is new construction.  So far in 2007 (Jan1st - Feb 26th), we have had 32 home sales at an average sale price of $303,156 (2931 sq ft avg).  13 of the homes sold were new construction, 41%!   Orleans Home Builders just opened Bridge Pointe in Harrisburg starting...
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By Leigh Brown, CEO, Dream Maker - Charlotte, NC
(Leigh Brown & Associates, RE/MAX Executive)
A BET report released today names Charlotte, NC as the best place in the country for African Americans!  Very cool accolade to receive.  The article in the Charlotte Observer talks about various factors used to develop the rankings-one of which is the high homeownership rate among African Americans in our fair city.  This makes me very proud that we can not only SAY we are diverse and encouraging of one another here, but PROVE it. =)Now, I'm a little biased, because I love my city.  But do you suppose this ranking has anything at all to do with the fact that the head of BET, Bob Johnson, is the owner of our city's NBA team (the Charlotte Bobcats), and owns property here?  Coincidence? I'll take it.
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By Virginia Halter, ABR, CDPE, CRS, GREEN, SFR, SRES
(RE/MAX Signature Properties)
I am a Southerner.  I grew up in a small "peek-plum town,"  (that is town where you take a peek and you're plum outta town) called Polkville, NC.  It's over yonder, a little piece down the road to the west.  My dad is Suuuutheeeern.  Ya'll know what I mean.  He has the cutest drawl you ever have heard.  My mother is from Florida so that doesn't really count much toward Southern heritage but it can tell you a good bit about how I turned out.When my Daddy was coming up (when he was young) being Southern wasn't necessarily the nicest thing.  People thought you were racist, scared to death of anyone foreign, and Yankees? Well, fugetaboutit!  Also, being Southern meant you might be slow, uneducated, and maybe, married to some of your kin folk.I am here to sing about the new South.  Charlotte...
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By Leigh Brown, CEO, Dream Maker - Charlotte, NC
(Leigh Brown & Associates, RE/MAX Executive)
Overview of the single family market for Charlotte NC for January 2007:Currently on the market: 4251 properties (on the market an average of 57 days)Currently under contract (pending): 2070 properties (on the market an average of 79 days)Sold between Jan 1 2007 and Jan 31 2007: 2362 properties (on the market an average of 84 days)Lowest current asking price: $16,000Highest current asking price: $10,000,000 Overview of the townhouse/condo market for Charlotte NC for January 2007:Currently on the market: 802 properties (on the market an average of 55 days)Currently under contract (pending): 335 properties (on the market an average of 91 days)Sold between Jan 1 2007 and Jan 31 2007: 413 properties (on the market an average of 85 days)Lowest current asking price: $24,900Highest current aski...
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I remember when I first moved here from the DC Suburbs, I thought "you've got to be kidding - no Nordstroms, not even a Crate and Barrel?"  Nine years later, we've got it all...we got a Nordstroms, Crate and Barrel, even a Cheesecake Factory - which is huge for me (when I first moved here and expecting my second child, I would always crave their jumbolaya (spelling?).  I couldn't wait to move back up North.  We've come a long way, baby!  I couldn't imagine moving up North anymore.I heard that we are getting 1,500 new families moving into Charlotte per week.  I didn't have a chance to confirm that, but if that's true, WOW!  They said we are what Atlanta used to be 10 years ago.  I hope we don't grow too fast and too big, which is why I love Charlotte, cosmopolitan enough but not too cong...
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By Angela Badgett, ABR
(Wilkinson and Associates Real Estate)
Are you getting tired of getting turned down for a loan.  Well, there is an alternative to financing called a Contract for Deed.What Is It?  The Contract for Deed is a no credit check program which requires 10% down payment.  This is a guranteed program where the buyer can purchase a brand new or pre-existing home of their choice without being denied financing.  How Does It Work?  Instead of your traditional lending institution financing your home, an investor acts as your lender.  You find the home of your dream, deposit your 10% which is held in escrow by the closing attorney.  The investor will purchase the home for you and close on the home anywhere from 30-45 days.  Once he closes, the next day you will close with the investor and the closing attorney records your name as well as t...
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By Leigh Brown, CEO, Dream Maker - Charlotte, NC
(Leigh Brown & Associates, RE/MAX Executive)
IKEA announced today that they are finally bringing a store to Charlotte NC!  I'm SOOOO excited!And the best part is that the store will be located in the University Area of Charlotte (that's the north side, near UNC-Charlotte), where we need more great retail and less Wally-world action.  No more driving to Atlanta for hot, affordable, contemporary furnishings!  Hooray!  We only have to get to 2009 to get it...=)
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