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Indiana Housing has been instrumental in providing no downpayment loan programs for first time home buyers. They now offer a loan program for home buyers who are moving up or buying their next home, aptly named the “Next Home” program. Many home sellers today are faced with breaking even after the sell of their home and do not have the additional funds to put a down payment on their next home. The new program from Indiana Housing offers up to 4% toward down payment and closing costs. So a home buyer can buy their next home with no money down....
This weeks guest post is written by Ines from Miamism. Ines and her husband Enrique are Miami Beach Realtors. Ines brings Miami to life through photos and her blog, which was recently featured in Forbes. If you are thinking about a vacation home in Miami, Ines is the Realtor I recommend. People are drawn to my website, miamism.com because they say that my love for Miami is evident. Who better to help you find the perfect home, second home or vacation getaway than someone who really has a passion for where they live? Well . . . I’m happy to...
This weeks special guest REALTOR® is Kristal Kraft, a relocation expert in Denver, Colorado. Kristal offers some excellent information for making your relocation move as stress free as possible. Indianapolis to Denver or Denver to Indianapolis; It is easier than ever to pick up stakes and move from one city to another without skipping a beat. Today we are equipped with the Internet and can view homes anywhere in the world while sipping java in our pj’s! Reviewing floorplans online, researching school districts and viewing the actual neighborhood with the help of Google Earth has become the norm! Of course...
As I was writing a guest post about short sales for a friend of mine, Gena Riede in Sacramento, I took a moment to look at the current stats of active homes in Indianapolis. These stats cover all the Metro area, gathered from the Indianapolis MLS. When we start talking about the best deals available, we generally include short sales or bank owned homes. So how many short sales and bank owned homes are there are on the market right now? Current Active Homes: 18,665 Current Bank Owned: 1165 Current Short Sales: 1514 Of the current available homes for...
This weeks guest REALTOR® is Roberta Murphy from San Diego. Roberta is a luxury home specialist in the city of the most beautiful luxury homes. I know every market has their share of luxury homes, but San Diego is my favorite! When we lived in California, I never experienced a bad weather day in San Diego. Considering, the weather, the beach, shopping, local attractions and home prices, now may be the best time to buy your dream homes or vacation home in San Diego. The last few years may have been the worst real estate market (for sellers) in recent...
This week, our guest Realtor is Gena Riede from Sacramento, California. While Gena is searching for the answers to origins of this unique sculpture in Sacramento, she has reminded me, I have not posted my May photo for the photo contest. You can look for it by day’s end at HomeToIndy.com. Gena also reminds us homes that are in show condition and priced correctly are selling. That’s a universal real estate truth. I just love what Paula Henry, your Indianapolis Realtor® has incorporated on Home to Indy with the photo contest for all the Indianapolis readers. This is a fun...
In the past few years we’ve seen several Indianapolis home builders lose the fight against the economic downturn in housing. Last month’s news was a bit hard to accept. Estridge Homes was done. I always looked at Estridge as an icon and one of the best production builders in Indianapolis. They even built some wonderful custom homes. Since 1967, the Carmel-based Estridge Group was a fixture in the Indianapolis housing market. Over the years, the company built more than 7,000 homes and was the only builder in the state to win the National Housing Quality Gold Award, the home building...
Every Tuesday, here on Indy Real Estate Talk, we are featuring guest posts from real estate experts around the country. This week we have, Realtor, Dave Smith, from sunny Tucson, Arizona. I know there’s many a Hoosier looking for sunny skies about now. Well, we found them, but – be warned, the sunny skies in Tucson come with some extreme side effects. Hello from Sunny Tucson. We are about to enter what the rest of the country calls summer; here we call it “BROIL”. There is a race to any shade, even if it is just the width of a...
