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Friday, June 25th, 2010
I believe that it is very important for home sellers to understand the buyer’s market that we are now experiencing by giving those who wish to list their homes my very best advice. As a real estate expert in the Birmingham, Alabama areas of Mountain Brook, Homewood, Vestavia Hills, Hoover, Inverness, and the Highway 280 Corridor to Chelsea, I believe that it is a huge mistake to list your home at a price above what the current market will bear.
Price is currently driving the market, and everyone wants a bargain. To be competitive and have serious traffic through your home, the listing price must be what the current market reflects, regardless of what homes sold for in your neighborhood several months ago.
Remember, when you want to buy your next home you will get the same great prices from the other side of the transaction. Try to be realistic if you must sell your home now. We cannot control the market, but we can control the price!
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(To search by School District click MLS button above and then the School Search tab at the top of box)
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SHANNON HOLMES (205) 706-3975
RealtySouth
109 Inverness Plaza, Birmingham, Alabama 35242
Information is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed.
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Monday, June 7th, 2010
Here are quick links to valuable city information provided by local chambers of commerce about Birmingham and its suburban communities:
Birmingham City: http://birminghamal.org/
Jefferson County: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_County,_AL
Shelby County: http://shelbycountyalabama.com/
Alabaster: http://cityofalabaster.com/
Calera: http://www.cityofcalera.org/
Chelsea: http://www.cityofchelsea.com/
Columbiana: http://www.cityofcolumbiana.com/
Helena: http://www.cityofhelena.org/
Homewood: http://www.homewoodal.net/
Hoover: http://www.hooveral.org/
Leeds: http://leedsalabama.com/
McCalla: http://www.americantowns.com/al/mccalla
Mountain Brook: http://www.mtnbrook.org/
Pelham: http://www.pelhamonline.com/
Vestavia: http://www.vestaviahills.net/
SEARCH THE BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA MLS
(To search by School District click MLS button above and then the School Search tab at the top of box)
MORTGAGE CALCULATOR
SHANNON HOLMES (205) 706-3975
RealtySouth
109 Inverness Plaza, Birmingham, Alabama 35242
Information is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed.
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Sunday, June 14th, 2009
Birmingham, Alabama REALTOR® Shannon Holmes has the expertise to give you the success you need to get your home sold in the current real estate markets of Birmingham, Hoover, Vestavia Hills, Homewood, Mountain Brook, Inverness and the Highway 280 Corridor to Chelsea. Always striving to be the best Realtor® Birmingham has to offer, and backed by RealtySouth, the top real estate company in Birmingham, which controls the inventory and the home sales market, you may rest assured that these forces make a powerful team to get your home sold.
Anyone can place your home in the MLS, put out a sign, and hold an open house, but I can offer the most effective marketing strategy of all – High Visibility Internet Marketing. I am consistently on the first page of Google’s search results for the most searched phrases pertaining to my market, and my website gets thousands of visitors each month.
Did you know that according to the National Association of Realtors 94% of ALL residential transactions begin online? What should be abundantly clear then, is that the higher the rank of the website for the specific phrases that are actually being searched, the more chance that your property will be exposed to the right buyer. This website is a top ranked real estate website for the over the mountain market, and growing each month. On just this one site think of how many more times your listing could be viewed. In addition, RealtySouth.com is the top corporate website in this market.
When listing with me I will:
- Take numerous photos of your home and present them with the artistic eye of a former interior decorator. Also a $200,000 home will be treated with the same care as a $600,000 home. (Special luxury properties will have professional services and tours.)
- Place your listing on numerous highly rated websites.
- Place your home on Social Networking sites.
- Prominently feature your home on my personal websites, including greathomesalabama.com, with page 1 rankings for many of the most searched phrases.
- Allow you to benefit from the hundreds of hours of time, money and research that I have personally put into my sites in order to get these top search engine rankings.
- Provide PERSONAL ATTENTION to your home’s presentation, because I believe that a REAL UNDERSTANDING of the internet marketing process makes me ahead of the curve.
- Be able to design the best possible marketing strategy for your home based on the current market conditions, and have the knowledge and flexibility to change it at any time should the need arise.
The following is a list of websites on which your listing will appear should you list with me:
As an added bonus for listing with RealtySouth, a complimentary AHS Home Warranty is provided for each home during the listing period. This gives homeowners peace of mind concerning most repairs that might occur while marketing their home. Please see an example below of the latest letter of thanks for offering this service, and what it meant to my listing clients:
Hi Shannon,
Just to let you know- the warranty people scheduled us for a service call. They showed up on time, and rectified the issue. Granted, it was nothing like losing an HVAC, but we are VERY pleased with how this was handled. You should be proud to offer this special warranty to your clients.
Sincerely,
Cheryl B.
With RealtySouth, our home sales volume leads our next twenty competitors combined! Exposure is the key to getting your home sold if you are selling in Birmingham, Hoover, Vestavia Hills, Homewood, Mountain Brook, Inverness and the Highway 280 Corridor to Chelsea. The best of the best Realtors listen to your needs, and demonstrate tangible ways to market your home for maximum exposure. Don’t let your home get lost in the crowd!
SEARCH HOMES FOR SALE IN THE BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA MLS HERE!
Information is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed.
Shannon Holmes (205) 706-3975
RealtySouth
109 Inverness Plaza, Birmingham, Alabama 35242
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Saturday, June 13th, 2009
Whether selling your home in Birmingham, Hoover, Vestavia Hills, Homewood, Mountain Brook, Inverness, or the communities along the Highway 280 Corridor to Chelsea, it is important to correctly set the price for your home in order to make your home competitive with other properties in the area. That is why you need the professional advice of REALTOR® Shannon Holmes, who will provide you with the necessary information to correctly price your home for the maximum return. Several things must be considered when pricing your home :
- how well the home has been maintained
- any improvements or repairs that need to be made
- how quickly that you need to sell
- and most important of all, the current market conditions.
The market value of a home is generally considered to be the price at which it would sell, as it sits in its current condition, in a time frame of about 30 to 120 days.
If the asking price of your home in Birmingham, Hoover, Vestavia Hills, Homewood, Mountain Brook, Inverness, or the communities along the Highway 280 Corridor to Chelsea should be too high, then these factors could come into play:
- A decrease in the pool of buyers for your property may occur by placing it out of reach for buyers that might have been interested had it been fairly priced.
- Your home might be used as an unfavorable price comparison with another property that is more reasonably priced.
- You will most likely limit the number of showings because other REALTORS® may consider it a waste of time, effort, and gas to bring clients to a home that is out of line with the rest of the neighborhood.
- Your home will become “shopworn”, and people will wonder why it has not sold.
- After sitting on the market for what is perceived to be too long, a homeowner will most likely have to reduce the price of the house, perhaps to an even lower level than if it had been correctly priced all along.
- An appraisal is nearly always required when purchasing a home in Birmingham, Hoover, Vestavia Hills, Homewood, Mountain Brook, Inverness, or the communities along the Highway 280 Corridor to Chelsea. If the appraisal comes in for less than the amount of the contract, then the agreement becomes void, and negotiations will have to start over. At that point the buyers may decide to walk away, even if the sales price is adjusted to match the appraisal. What a waste that would be!
In the end, a correctly priced, well-maintained home is more likely to bring a quicker sale, and for more money. That is why the good advice of a REALTOR® like Shannon Holmes can prove invaluable.
Information is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed.
Shannon Holmes (205) 706-3975 shholmes@realtysouth.com
RealtySouth
109 Inverness Plaza, Birmingham, Alabama 35242
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Birmingham, Alabama REALTOR® Shannon Holmes has had many years of experience enjoying all that the Birmingham area has to offer in the way of fun and entertainment. If you are moving to Birmingham, Hoover, Vestavia Hills, Homewood, Mountain Brook, Inverness, or the communities along the Highway 280 Corridor to Chelsea, and would like to know where to go for food, fun, and entertainment, just follow these favorite links to find things to do in Birmingham:
Discover Our Town Dining Links
Birmingham Restaurants
Things to Do in Alabama
Birmingham Zoo
McWane Science Center
Alabama Theatre
Alabama Symphony
Alabama Ballet
Birmingham Children’s Theatre
Virginia Samford Theatre
Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
City Stages
Sidewalk Moving Pictures
Sloss Furnaces
Vulcan Park
WorkPlay
Aldridge Gardens
Verizon Music Center
Birmingham Jefferson Civic Center
Birmingham Museum of Art
Birmingham Public Library
Oak Mountain State Park
Tannehill State Park
The Birmingham Barons
American Village
Alys Stephens Center
Bluff Park Art Show
DeSoto Caverns
Do Dah Day
Greek Festival
Mercedes Marathon
Morgan Creek Vineyards
Papa John’s Bowl
Shakespeare Festival
Information provided is for entertainment purposes only. RealtySouth and its agents make no endorsement of any of the places or businesses mentioned in this blog.
RealtySouth
109 Inverness Plaza, Birmingham, Alabama 35242
Shannon Holmes (205) 706-3975
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