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Month: August 2012
Is Well Water a Benefit or a Detriment to a Home?
An interesting topic came up in the comments on the Avondale Albatross update: If a home is on well water do most buyers consider that to be a desireable feature or something they’d rather avoid? Ardell: …why would someone build a 5,000 square foot house on well water, and why would someone pay $1,275,000 for…
Nearly a Third of Sellers Will Overprice On Purpose
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. On Monday I posted the results of a new quarterly survey of home sellers that we’re doing at Redfin. This part in particular stood out to me as I was analyzing the responses: …when asked how they approach pricing their home 32% of sellers indicated that they…
Mid-Week Open Thread (2012-08-22)
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Avondale Albatross Finally Unloaded at 52% of ’07 Price
It’s time for what will most likely be our final update on the Avondale Albatross, the storied spec home first spotted on these pages in June 2006, and most recently foreclosed by Bank of America, who had been attempting to unload it since last November. According to the MLS, yesterday Bank of America was finally…