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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, Helena, Chelsea, Alabaster, Pelham, Calera, and Trussville, 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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SHANNON HOLMES (205) 706-3975
RealtySouth
160 Main Street Suite 240 Hoover, Alabama 35244
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/
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SHANNON HOLMES (205) 706-3975
RealtySouth
160 Main Street Suite 240 Hoover, Alabama 35244
Information is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed.
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
Nestled between Mountain Brook and Vestavia Hills you will find the city of Homewood, Alabama, whose real estate is made up of frequently renovated bungalows and cottages with storybook charm.
Search homes for sale in the Homewood, Alabama MLS by neighborhood:
Some of the great architectural features which can be found in Hollywood and Mayfair, two of Homewood’s most desirable neighborhoods, are:
- Arched doorways
- English timbers on facades
- Chimney pots
- Spanish tile roofs
Homewood Alabama English Tudor
Built in the 1920′s, Hollywood boasts many stuccoed homes in the Spanish Colonial style of its California namesake, while Mayfair is more of a mix of traditional Georgians and English cottages.
The shopping district in Homewood is a mecca for the upscale and trendy followers of fashion in the Birmingham area. With many unique boutiques and restaurants, for everything from clothing to home furnishings, Homewood pulls shoppers from Mountain Brook to Vestavia and Hoover.
A great central location to the city of Birmingham, a strong sense of community involvement, and good schools make Homewood, Alabama a popular area for those in the market to buy a home.
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MORTGAGE CALCULATOR
SHANNON HOLMES (205) 706-3975
RealtySouth
160 Main Street Suite 240 Hoover, Alabama 35244
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, Homewood, Mountain Brook, Alabaster, Pelham, Helena, Trussville, Calera, Chelsea, McCalla, or any of the other surrounding communities. 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, Homewood, Mountain Brook, Alabaster, Pelham, Helena, Calera, Chelsea, Trussville, McCalla, or any of the other surrounding communities. 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
160 Main Street Suite 240 Hoover, Alabama 35244
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Saturday, June 13th, 2009
Whether selling your home in Birmingham, Hoover, Vestavia, Homewood, Mountain Brook, Pelham, Alabaster, Calera, Helena, McCalla, Chelsea, Trussville, or any of the other surrounding communities, 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, Homewood, Mountain Brook, Pelham, Alabaster, Calera, Helena, McCalla, Chelsea, Trussville, or any of the other surrounding communities 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, Homewood, Mountain Brook, Pelham, Alabaster, Helena, Calera, McCalla, Chelsea, Trussville, or any of the other surrounding communities. 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
160 Main Street Suite 240 Hoover, Alabama 35244
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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, Mountain Brook, Vestavia, Homewood, Trussville, Calera, Alabaster, Helena, Pelham, Chelsea, or any of the other surrounding communities, 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
160 Main Street Suite 240 Hoover, Alabama 35244
Shannon Holmes (205) 706-3975
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
USE THE SEARCH BOX AT THE TOP RIGHT TO FIND BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA BEST PLACES TO LIVE, OR SEARCH THE QUICK LINKS AT THE END OF THIS POST.
Recently TV’s Craig Ferguson performed at The Comedy Club in Hoover, a large suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. “I have NEVER seen a place more MISREPRESENTED in my LIFE “ , he said. “It’s all MODERN and everything. The people are SO FRIENDLY, and I had the BEST Philly cheesesteak sandwich I have EVER had in my life! I’M MOVING HERE!” , he exclaimed.
As I sat in that Saturday night audience enjoying his show, I wondered how many others HAD NO IDEA what WORLD CLASS AMENITIES Birmingham, and its outlying areas, have to offer. From Renaissance Ross Bridge Golf Resort and Spa to the five star Highlands Bar and Grill Restaurant; from the boutiques of Homewood and the Villages of Mountain Brook, to the fabulous shopping of The Summit, Riverchase Galleria, and Brookwood Mall; from SOUTHERN LIVING and SOUTHERN ACCENTS magazines to Pepper Place design center; Birmingham Jefferson Civic Center to Regions Park; from the incredible estates of Mountain Brook to the explosion of new home communities , such as Greystone, along the 280 corridor; from top doctors to UAB Medical Center, Birmingham is one of the nation’s best kept secrets for amenities versus affordability.
More good news for the Birmingham real estate market is that Birmingham, Alabama now ranks #4 on the nation’s list of places for a home price rebound, according to the Birmingham Business Journal.
Birmingham was just named #46 on the list of the country’s largest metropolitan areas for quality of life, based on “well-rounded markets with healthy economies, moderate costs of living, light traffic, impressive housing stocks and high-powered educational systems” ( Birmingham ranks No. 46 for quality of life – Birmingham Business Journal ).
Birmingham, and its surrounding communities have it all: great homes, fine dining and entertainment, incomparable sports, amazing shopping, terrific schools, world-renowned medical facilities, breathtaking scenery, and unbelievable weather, in a city that mixes trendy with traditional.
Friendly and sophisticated, Birmingham has all the amenities of Atlanta or LA , without the never-ending traffic congestion, or exorbitant cost of living. Whether your style is “English Cottage“, or “Tudor Castle”, you will find that Birmingham truly is a “Magic City”.
Quick MLS Links to some of Brmingham’s most popular areas include:
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Information is deemed reliable, but is not guaranteed.
Contact: SHANNON HOLMES, REALTOR® (205) 706-3975
160 MAIN STREET, SUITE 240,
HOOVER, ALABAMA 35244
Please contact Shannon Holmes for more information on real estate in Birmingham, Alabama, one of the best places to live.
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