Charleston South Carolina Real Estate

Charleston's "Appeal" to Cruise Lines

Search for Real Estate in Charleston When you are selling your home, you know that curb appeal is very important. First impressions are lasting so you make every effort to spruce things up for visitors because you know that even a great home can be overlooked Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:57 AM by Chris DeLoach, ABR, SFR, BIC | 0 Comments

Getting Rid of Point of Sale Assessment? - SC Property Taxes

Deep inside all of us we have a sense of fairness and balance. As citizens of the United States, we expect our governmental entities to create fair laws and apply those laws evenhandedly. When the consequences of the law result in inequity, we just plain Read More...

Posted Tuesday, February 02, 2010 12:35 PM by Chris DeLoach, ABR, SFR, BIC | 0 Comments

The local tax man does not know what your home is worth

When looking for a new home, taxes are an important consideration. My clients often ask me about the tax assessed value of properties and question why the tax assessment is usually lower than the market value of the home. First-time home buyers frequently Read More...

Posted Tuesday, February 02, 2010 12:04 PM by Chris DeLoach, ABR, SFR, BIC | 0 Comments

Military PCS to Charleston

Search for homes for sale in the Charleston area PCS - permanent change of station ... As a military member, you know the strong emotions that this phrase brings. How will this change impact my family? What is the new area like? How are the schools? Will Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 27, 2010 11:15 AM by Chris DeLoach, ABR, SFR, BIC | 0 Comments

Lighting the fires under the recovering home market

Good news from Congress - the $8000 tax credit for new home purchases has been extended to May 1st of 2010 (pending presidential authorization). Home buyers under contract to purchase by April 30 will be allowed an additional 60 days to complete their Read More...

Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 10:23 AM by Chris DeLoach, ABR, SFR, BIC | 0 Comments

Home buying - why procuring cause matters to you

Charleston Real Estate Site Most homebuyers are not real estate agents. Most homebuyers shop for homes with some natural, but potentially expensive assumptions. Buyers usually think that it makes no difference if they began their property search on their Read More...

Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2008 11:00 PM by Chris DeLoach, ABR, SFR, BIC | 0 Comments

Builders and you - get your own free representation first

Charleston Real Estate Site - search the MLS As you might expect, builders look at selling a home from a very different perspective than that of individual home sellers. Builders are business people and selling is a full time business - not an occasional Read More...

Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2008 10:47 PM by Chris DeLoach, ABR, SFR, BIC | 0 Comments

Real Estate today and the Gen X, Gen Y Buyer

Charleston Real Estate Search the Charleston MLS The marketplace for buying or selling a home has changed – again – and dramatically. Along with market changes have been a natural evolution processes among consumers. Not long ago, nearly every Read More...

Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 12:53 PM by Chris DeLoach, ABR, SFR, BIC | 0 Comments

A place called home

Charleston Area Real Estate Where we live, the type of home we choose to live in, and how we make that home our own are intimate, careful choices. The home, for most of us, transcends the physical. Even the term "home" itself evokes a powerful Read More...

Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 11:09 AM by Chris DeLoach, ABR, SFR, BIC | 0 Comments

Buy a home, get a rebate vs Buy a home using the best agent

Charleston Real Estate A hot real estate market over the past decade has brought with it a lot of changes for the real estate industry. Changes in technology have also been key in altering the way the public and the real estate profession sees the role Read More...

Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:05 PM by Chris DeLoach, ABR, SFR, BIC | 0 Comments

It is really a rebate, a kick back, or a gift?

Charleston Real Estate Search the Charleston MLS Rebate is from14th century English, in effect, to deduct. Re-bate is to “un-deduct” - or, simply, give back. Now by this definition, and the usual concept of rebate we all well understand, the Read More...

Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:55 AM by Chris DeLoach, ABR, SFR, BIC | 0 Comments

It's not your mortgage

Let’s first eliminate a common misunderstanding. Banks do not GIVE mortgages. If you have a home with a mortgage, the bank owns the mortgage. How did they get it? You GAVE it to them. Most people say that they are going to get a mortgage when in Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:57 AM by Chris DeLoach, ABR, SFR, BIC | 0 Comments

Improving market

A growing number of area real estate professionals are daring fate by starting to talk about an imminent market recovery. Yes, the months of pain for sellers may soon give way to a gradual improvement in market balance. Will the recovery be a run away Read More...

Posted Friday, July 13, 2007 12:09 PM by Chris DeLoach, ABR, SFR, BIC | 0 Comments

Light at the end of the tunnel!

Welcome to a buyers’ market. It has taken at number of months but our area has evolved into a market dominated by the power of the buyer. As a buyer, of course this is great news. As a seller, you may be starting to pace the floor and you may be Read More...

Posted Friday, July 13, 2007 11:54 AM by Chris DeLoach, ABR, SFR, BIC | 0 Comments

CBS - bashing Realtors ... again

"Chipping Away at Realtors' Six Percent" Lesley Stahl - 60 Minutes May 13, 2007 ( http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/11/60minutes/main2790865.shtml ) "Dear Fellow REALTOR®: I am disappointed and dismayed at the biased story Read More...

Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 9:28 AM by Chris DeLoach, ABR, SFR, BIC | 0 Comments