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CITY LINKS FOR BIRMINGHAM & ITS SUBURBS

Monday, June 7th, 2010

shannon holmesHere are quick links to valuable city information provided by local chambers of commerce about Birmingham and its suburban communities:

Birmingham Cityhttp://birminghamal.org/

Jefferson Countyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_County,_AL

Shelby Countyhttp://shelbycountyalabama.com/

Alabasterhttp://cityofalabaster.com/

Calera: http://www.cityofcalera.org/

Chelseahttp://www.cityofchelsea.com/

Columbianahttp://www.cityofcolumbiana.com/

Helena: http://www.cityofhelena.org/

Homewoodhttp://www.homewoodal.net/

Hooverhttp://www.hooveral.org/

Leedshttp://leedsalabama.com/

McCallahttp://www.americantowns.com/al/mccalla

Mountain Brookhttp://www.mtnbrook.org/

Pelhamhttp://www.pelhamonline.com/

Vestaviahttp://www.vestaviahills.net/

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SHANNON HOLMES (205) 706-3975

 

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109 Inverness Plaza, Birmingham, Alabama 35242

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LIBERTY PARK SUBDIVISION VESTAVIA ALABAMA AMENITIES

Monday, July 20th, 2009
4067 Paxton Place Vestavia Hills AL 35242 Liberty Park home for sale

4067 Paxton Place Vestavia Hills AL 35242 Liberty Park Home for Sale

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Homes for sale in the 4000 acre master-planned community of Liberty Park Subdivision in Vestavia, Alabama range in price from about the $350,000′s to $1,000,000+, and have a host of fabulous amenities to offer:

  • Liberty Park Community Pool
  • Lakes with Fishing
  • Parks
  • Sidewalks
  • Playground
  • Vestavia Sports Complex
  • Trails
  • Green Spaces
  • Two onsite neighborhood schools – Liberty Park Elementary and the new Liberty Park Middle School (Homes for sale in Liberty Park are also zoned for Vestavia Hills High School.)
  • Old Overton Club
  • new construction homes in the Provence sector just opening
  • Homes for sale in gated area of Old Overton in Liberty Park
  • Homes for sale with view lots
  • Homes for sale with golf course views
  • Hotel
  • Commercial Offices
  • Retail Space in the Prominence Shops at Liberty Park with a Bank, Dry Cleaners, etc.
  • Community Activities such as “Art in the Park”, a Pumpkin Patch, and a Christmas Party, sponsored by the Ladies of Liberty Park organizaton
  • Easy access to I-459, Highway 280, I-65, & Highway 31
  • Close to shopping at The Summit, Brookwood Mall, and the numerous shopping choices that the Highway 280 Corridor has to offer
  • Convenient to most of the wonderful amenities that Birmingham, Alabama, (the largest city in the state) has to offer.  For more information on activities and amenities in the Birmingham area, please refer to FUN & ENTERTAINMENT LINKS WHEN MOVING TO BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA”.

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SHANNON HOLMES, REALTOR® (205) 706-3975

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109 Inverness Plaza, Birmingham, Alabama 35242

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SHANNON HOLMES is a Birmingham, Alabama native who attended Vestavia Schools as a child.  Her vast knowledge of the area could prove a valuable asset to the home buyer or seller.  Always happy to answer questions, please contact Shannon for any real estate information about Liberty Park Subdivision, Vestavia, Alabama or its amenities.

LIBERTY PARK SUBDIVISION HOMES FOR SALE VESTAVIA ALABAMA MLS

Sunday, July 19th, 2009
7401 Ridgecrest Court Rd Vestavia Hills AL 35242 Liberty Park home for sale image

7401 Ridgecrest Court Rd Vestavia Hills AL 35242 Liberty Park home for sale

Liberty Park Subdivision, Vestavia,  Alabama has many beautiful homes for sale. Preserving the natural environment along the Cahaba River, yet still providing residents with all the modern conveniences they might need, the master-planned community of Liberty Park is a place any home buyer would be proud to call home.

Each neighborhood in Liberty Park Subdivision, Vestavia, Alabama has a distinct yet cohesive feel, with pricing starting in the $350,000′s to well over one million dollars. The following is a list of neighborhoods with homes for sale in Liberty Park:

  • Alston Crest
  • Hampden Place
  • Boulder Lake
  • Vestlake Hills
  • Heritage Hills
  • Vestlake Cove
  • Vestlake Ridge
  • King’s Mountain Ridge
  • Old Overton
  • Provence (new construction homes)

Award-winning plans in the neighborhoods of Liberty Park are designed for ease of entertaining, and contain many luxury features. Many of the homes for sale in Liberty Park have high quality features such as granite countertops, hardwood floors, stainless steel appliances, beautiful crown mouldings, and more.

Some of Birmingham’s top builders for the beautiful, livable homes for sale in Liberty Park, Vestavia, Alabama include:

  • Cross Construction LLC
  • Cross Custom Homes, Inc.
  • Cross Development LLC
  • Darden Construction Co., Inc.
  • Dorsett Construction Co. Inc.
  • Indianwood Building Co., Inc.
  • Lifescape Builders LLC
  • R & J Building Co. Inc.
  • Rusert Homes LLC
  • Signature Homes

Standing sentinel over the beautiful 4000 acre master-planned community of Liberty Park Subdivision in Vestavia, Alabama is one of the world’s largest replicas of Lady Liberty.  After years atop the Liberty National Building in downtown Birmingham, the 36 foot tall Statue of Liberty was moved to her present location off of I-459, and close to Highway 280, in 1989. With her torch blazing, this well-recognized statue dominates the skyline at the exit to the subdivision. It is fitting that she lends a bit of history to her Liberty Park home.

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Shannon Holmes, REALTOR® (205) 706-3975

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109 Inverness Plaza, Birmingham, Alabama 35242

Information deemed reliable but is not guaranteed.

Please contact Shannon Holmes for more information about Liberty Park Subdivision homes for sale in the Vestavia, Alabama MLS.

HOW TO SELL YOUR HOME IN BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

shannon-holmes-011_ppac7Birmingham, 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.
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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

HOW TO PRICE YOUR HOME FOR SALE

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

shannon-holmes-011_ppac8Whether 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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FUN & ENTERTAINMENT LINKS WHEN MOVING TO BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

shannon-holmes-011_ppac9Birmingham, 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

 

BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA ONE OF THE BEST PLACES TO LIVE

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

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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 toPepper Place design centerBirmingham 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 CenterBirmingham 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:

 

SEARCH BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA REAL ESTATE BY PRICE

SEARCH THE BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA MLS HERE

(To search by School District click MLS button above and then the School Search tab at the top of box)

SEARCH ALL BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA FORECLOSURES HERE

Information is deemed reliable, but is not guaranteed.

Contact: SHANNON HOLMES, REALTOR®   (205) 706-3975

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109 Inverness Plaza 

Birmingham, Alabama 35242

Please contact Shannon Holmes for more information on real estate in Birmingham, Alabama, one of the best places to live.