How Would You Like a 22% ROI?
Wednesday, July 01
We're halfway through the year and I thought I'd take a look at how the first six months of 2015 stacked up against 2014. I'll be doing this for many popular Venice FL neighborhoods in the coming days and weeks, but today's blog post starts with South Venice.The biggest takeaways from this analy...
Real Estate Sales Teams
Monday, June 29
A new report from the National Association of Realtors called the Danger Report suggests that the sales team concept threatens brokers and individual agents.According to the report, sales teams can become powerful and create their own brand outside the broker's branding. Brokers also fear the ma...
Kitchen Update on a Budget
Sunday, June 07
One of the reasons I got into real estate was that I was flipping homes before HGTV came along to make programs about it.Martha Stewart posted a picture of a small kitchen update on her website. If you have an old house that has solid wood kitchen cabinets, you may want to think twice before tra...
Venice FL Investing Tips
Thursday, May 14
I toured a Venice FL home for sale this week with a buyer looking for a retirement residence. One of the homes in the buyer's list was a renovated home in the Venice East neighborhood.This home was exceptionally well renovated. Every major system appeared to be touched by an update: roof, windo...
Venice FL Condo Sales Update
Thursday, April 23
I looked at MLS data for sold condos, townhomes, and villas (all considered condos) and took a look at sales for the first three months of this year, compared to the same period in 2014. Venice FL condos sold at increases in 2015. Venice FL real estate sales statistics from the MLS All indic...
Think With Google: Real Estate Trends
Thursday, April 16
Like it or not, a big part of our job as Realtors is marketing. That means keeping up with the latest trends in technology and in consumer behavior, so that our customer's properties can more easily be found by qualified buyers.Luckily for my clients, I am fascinated by technology and embrace ch...