John Badalamenti, CRS's (jbadale) Blog

Prudential Fox & Roach, Realtors® -- is looking for newly licensed* and experienced real estate professionals to join their Blue Bell, PA -- office. Are you PASSIONATE about Helping People Achieve the Dream of Home Ownership? Are you PASSIONATE about Helping People Sell Their Home utilizing a com...

Finally on the market – the Big White House by the Hanging Rock! OPEN HOUSE THIS SUNDAY, MAY 19th, 1-4 PM Come see this ...architecturally stunning & unique manor home with the taste, quality and workmanship of yesteryear.Located directly on Gulph Creek in historic Gulph Mills with water, woods a...

Architecturally stunning & unique manor home with the taste, quality and workmanship of yesteryear. Located directly on Gulph Creek in historic Gulph Mills with water, woods and garden views from every window, 3 decks on multiple tiers, 18th century millwork and magnificent floors; one wing is or...

When the Wall Street Journal or Forbes run mortgage rate stories as their lead items, those of us who keep an eye on the local real estate market pay close attention. I frequently share what they say here. But when even the non-financial outlets like USA TODAY and the cable TV news channels give ...

Good Faith Estimates — anyone actively comparing mortgage rates in receives them. Yet GFEs seem full of the kind of fine print that we don’t necessarily spend time worrying over: a glance at the bottom line would seem to suffice. Sort of like the kind of golf rule (26-1) that just cost Tiger Wood...

Even though the local housing market looks as certain to rise as the spring shoots, behind that optimism is the perennial question about whether another “dip” is coming — a lot of which has to do with Wall Street. Remembering how 2008’s economic downturn saw the housing market and stock market ta...

Most everyone with any relocating experience should recognize ‘the moment.’ No matter how much advance thought and elbow grease you’ve put in, that’s the moving day moment when everything seems to starts happening at once, and there’s literally no time left to attend to the stray details you’ve b...

Any home carrying a price tag of $1 million or more generally falls into the ‘luxury property’ category.­­ To finance it, a luxury loan is called for. Since financing luxury homes on The Main Linecan be more challenging than financing run-of-the-mill properties, many prospective home owners at th...