Is it the Zillow estimated value; the tax assessed value; the market value based upon a qualitative market analysis by your realtor or the value a qualified buyer is willing to pay for your home?   But then do any of those values matter if the mortgage lender doesn’t Continue Reading

That’s normally what happens in the last four months of every year but the pandemic has disrupted everything we can normally expect with multiple offers, escalators clauses, weeks’ long waits for preliminary  title reports and almost virtual closings. The pandemic has Continue Reading

The Florida Surfside condo building’s collapse is a real estate tragedy  with 98 lives lost.  Alaska doesn’t have any twelve story, 136 unit  condo buildings located on a barrier island but there are lessons any condo owner or community board member can learn Continue Reading

As a real estate broker, it is my responsibility to  approve termination agreements.  Unfortunately, I am signing far too many as a result of buyers and sellers’ failure to come to terms over home inspection repairs.  Both buyers and sellers enter into a Continue Reading

In my forty years of residential real estate sales, I have yet to meet a buyer or a seller who was not well intended  when it came to buying or selling a home.  However, fast forward to today, when the repercussions of the Covid pandemic are disrupting every Continue Reading